anticlimax
英 [ˌæntiˈklaɪmæks]
美 [ˌæntiˈklaɪmæks]
n. 扫兴的结局; 扫兴
复数:anticlimaxes
BNC.33341 / COCA.30538
牛津词典
noun
- 扫兴的结局;扫兴
a situation that is disappointing because it happens at the end of sth that was much more exciting, or because it is not as exciting as you expected- Travelling in Europe was something of an anticlimax after the years he'd spent in Africa.
他在非洲生活了多年,到欧洲旅行真是有点太平淡了。 - a sense/feeling of anticlimax
扫兴感
- Travelling in Europe was something of an anticlimax after the years he'd spent in Africa.
柯林斯词典
- N-VAR (激动人心的事情之后)令人失望的情况,令人扫兴的事件
You can describe something as ananticlimaxif it disappoints you because it happens after something that was very exciting, or because it is not as exciting as you expected.- Barry's speech followed Dirk Bogarde's appearance, and was an inevitable anticlimax...
巴里紧随德克·博加德之后发表了演讲,不出所料,演讲顿时变得索然无味。 - It was sad that his international career should end in such anticlimax.
令人悲哀的是,他的国际职业生涯竟如此惨淡收场。
- Barry's speech followed Dirk Bogarde's appearance, and was an inevitable anticlimax...
英英释义
noun
- a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one
- a disappointing decline after a previous rise
- the anticlimax of a brilliant career
双语例句
- The exams came, almost an anticlimax after the build-up that the students had given them.
在学生们一番忙碌准备之后,随之而来的考试却出乎意料地平淡。 - A Test Analysis of Open Canal Bottom Coefficient of Roughness Anticlimax on Turbulent Velocity of Flow and Intensity of Turbulence Influence
明渠渠底糙率突减对紊流流速及紊动强度影响的试验分析 - Polling day was uneventful, a bit of an anticlimax.
投票那天反倒平平淡淡,未免有点煞风景。 - They are more interested in the physical formation and rhetoric effects of anticlimax than in its inferential mechanism and interpretative procedure.
它们更关注的是突降的外部构成特征及其修辞效果,而并没有深入其内部,去探究突降的理解过程及在此过程中所涉及到的推理机制。 - In this way, anticlimax often brings to an almost absurd conclusion, posing sharp contrast to addressees 'prior interpretations.
通过这样的方式,突降总是引出一个与前部分理解形成有强烈对比的几乎荒谬的结论。 - Barry's speech followed Dirk Bogarde's appearance, and was an inevitable anticlimax
巴里紧随德克·博加德之后发表了演讲,不出所料,演讲顿时变得索然无味。 - After the fine performance in the first act, the rest of the play was an anticlimax.
后性能优良的第一幕,其余的发挥是一个虎头蛇尾。 - Anticlimax is quite distinctive among diversified figures of speech.
在繁多的修辞中,突降很有自己的特色。 - It was sad that his international career should end in such anticlimax.
令人悲哀的是,他的国际职业生涯竟如此惨淡收场。 - It was an anticlimax, to say the least, when we at last reached the Anchorage airport for our flight home.
这是一个虎头蛇尾,至少可以说,当我们在去年达到了安克雷奇机场为我们的航班。