bathos

英['beɪθɒs] 美['beɪθɑːs]
  • n. 顿降法;陈腐;矫揉造作
Noun:
  1. triteness or triviality of style

  2. insincere pathos

  3. a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one

1. Spring was the real apex of the year; summer was bathos.
春天是一年四季中真正的顶点, 而夏天是高潮后的低潮.

来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

2. He'll never be able to emerge from his bathos of coarseness and ignorance.
他永远也不能从他那粗野无知中解脱出来.

来自辞典例句

3. Worth's war was one that went from high excitement to moments of bathos.
沃思经历了战争的最兴奋时期,直到战争的最后时刻.

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