“anticlimax”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

anticlimax

释义

anticlimax|ˌæntɪˈklaɪmæks|
[anti- 2.]
1. Rhet. The opposite of climax: ‘a sentence in which the last part expresses something lower than the first’ J.; the addition of a particular which, instead of heightening the effect, suddenly lowers it or makes it ludicrous.
1727Pope, etc. Art of Sinking 101 The Anti-Climax..‘And thou Dalhoussy the great God of war, Lieutenant colonel to the Earl of Mar.’1791Boswell Johnson (1816) III. 418, I objected also to what appeared an anticlimax of praise.1842Dickens Amer. Notes (1850) 141/1 The stupendous silliness of certain stanzas with an anti-climax at the end of each.
2. By extension: A descent or fall in contrast to a previous rise.
1858Lewes Seaside Stud. 42, I think of the Hunter's finale as merely an extra dish, and pronounce that to be an anticlimax to his day's work.1879McCarthy Own Time II. xviii. 35 The later years of his life were only an anticlimax.

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