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denouement

/dey-noo-mahn/US // ˌdeɪ nuˈmɑ̃ //UK // (deɪˈnuːmɒn) //

结局,结尾,结尾处,终结

Related Words

culmination高潮,顶点,高峰,顶峰climax高潮,高潮期,高潮迭起,高潮部分finale结局,结束语,结尾,终结篇completion完成,完成度,竣工,完成情况end结束,终端,结束语,终止close关闭,密切,结束,靠近resolution决议,决议案,决议草案,决议的conclusion结论,结语,总结,结束语windup绞盘,绞车,绞刑,绞盘式

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the final resolution of the intricacies of a plot, as of a drama or novel.
    • : the place in the plot at which this occurs.
    • : the outcome or resolution of a doubtful series of occurrences.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounthe end result
Synonyms
climax高潮,高潮期,高潮迭起,高潮部分culmination高潮,顶点,高峰,顶峰finale结局,结束语,结尾,终结篇close关闭,密切,结束,靠近completion完成,完成度,竣工,完成情况conclusion结论,结语,总结,结束语end结束,终端,结束语,终止resolution决议,决议案,决议草案,决议的windup绞盘,绞车,绞刑,绞盘式final curtain最后谢幕,最后的大幕,最后的帷幕,最后一幕last act最后一幕,最后的行动,最后的行为,最后一场戏

Examples

  • This is why the denouement of Ratatouille has never quite hit me.

  • For anyone who cared to watch, the event and its denouement provided a graphic demonstration that the Iron Curtain was crumbling.

  • The bloody denouement his wife had dreaded had come to pass.

  • The denouement itself appropriates the theme of the huntsman who spares the child he is obliged to kill.

  • So says the reawakened Duke Orsino at the denouement of Twelfth Night.

  • It is hardly a shocking denouement to a relationship that seemed doomed virtually from the start.

  • The denouement of his history was a tragic one, and had come a few days before the time when our narrative opens.

  • The plot becomes more intense and tragic, as it approaches toward the denouement.

  • The hour had now come for the denouement of that home tragedy which was being enacted in the Rue St. Gilles.

  • Our best plan is to remain silent and wait for the denouement.

  • Then came the denouement; the marriage arranged for him had been a mockery.

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