melodrama
英['mel?(?)drɑ?m?]
美['m?l?drɑm?]
- n. 情節劇；音樂劇；聳人聽聞的事件，鬧劇
詞態變化
復數:?melodramas;
中文詞源
melodrama 情節劇，通俗劇
來自法語melodrame,歌舞劇，來自希臘語melos,歌，詞源同melody,韻律，旋律，drama,戲劇。后引申詞義浪漫愛情歌舞劇，夸張的愛情劇，情節劇，通俗劇等。
英文詞源
- melodrama (n.)
- 1784 (1782 as melo drame), "a stage-play in which songs were interspersed and music accompanied the action," from French mélodrame (18c.), from Greek melos "song" (see melody) + French drame "drama" (see drama). Meaning "a romantic and sensational dramatic piece with a happy ending" is from 1883, because this was often the form of the original melodramas. Also from French are Spanish melodrama, Italian melodramma, German melodram. Related: Melodramatize.
The melodramatist's task is to get his characters labelled good & wicked in his audience's minds, & to provide striking situations that shall provoke & relieve anxieties on behalf of poetic justice. [Fowler]
雙語例句
- 1. The video was seven minutes of high camp and melodrama.
- 那段錄像里是7分鐘極盡夸張搞笑的鬧劇表演。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. The action slips from comedy to melodrama and finally to tragedy.
- 劇情從喜劇逐漸發展為情節劇，最后又演變為悲劇。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. a gripping Victorian melodrama
- 動人心弦的維多利亞時代情節劇
來自《權威詞典》
- 4. And sadly, there is hypocrisy all around in this melodrama.
- 令人悲哀的是, 這場鬧劇中充滿了只許州官放火,不許百姓點燈的雙重標準.
來自互聯網
- 5. It had all the elements of melodrama you could want.
- 這其中你可以找到你想要看的情節緊張劇中的一切要素.
來自互聯網