melodramas

英 [ˈmɛləʊˌdrɑːməz]

美 [ˈmɛləˌdrɑməz]

n.  情节剧; 通俗剧; 情节剧式故事(或小说); 戏剧性的事件(或行为等); 过于夸大的事件(或行为等)
melodrama的复数

柯林斯词典

• (情节离奇而夸张的)惊险故事，传奇剧，情节剧
  Amelodramais a story or play in which there are a lot of exciting or sad events and in which people's emotions are very exaggerated.

双语例句

• Take a few steps, and you come upon that fatal Rue Croulebarbe, where Ulbach stabbed the goat-girl of Ivry to the sound of thunder, as in the melodramas.
  你再向前走几步，便到了那条不祥的落须街，在那街上，于尔巴克，曾象演剧似的，趁着雷声，一刀子刺杀了伊夫里的一个牧羊女。
• The play was the first in a long line of popular melodramas with piratical themes.
  在比赛中的第一个长长的流行情节剧的海盗主题。
• At one time there were even eight theaters in the area presenting Yiddish-language productions of musicals, revues, and heart-wrenching melodramas.
  在那里，甚至曾一度出现过8家剧院，上演着意第绪语的音乐剧、时俗讽刺剧、纠人心扉的情节剧等作品。