melodrama

• n. 情節劇；音樂劇；聳人聽聞的事件，鬧劇

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。後引申詞義浪漫愛情歌舞劇，誇張的愛情劇，情節劇，通俗劇等。

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]

1. The video was seven minutes of high camp and melodrama.

那段錄像裏是7分鍾極盡誇張搞笑的鬧劇表演。

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，最後又演變為悲劇。

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, 這場鬧劇中充滿了隻許州官放火,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.

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