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melodrama

/mel-uh-drah-muh, -dram-uh/US // ˈmɛl əˌdrɑ mə, -ˌdræm ə //UK // (ˈmɛləˌdrɑːmə) //

悲惨剧,闹剧,戏剧,戏剧性

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a dramatic form that does not observe the laws of cause and effect and that exaggerates emotion and emphasizes plot or action at the expense of characterization.
    • : melodramatic behavior or events.
    • : a romantic dramatic composition with music interspersed.

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Examples

  • In one very funny scene, Linda weeps helplessly at a Paris train station as a suitor-to-be roars with laughter at her melodrama.

  • In the meantime, after two years of inconclusive elections and political melodrama, many Israelis will welcome a return to some sense of normalcy.

  • The book is also a medical melodrama, a family mystery and a meditation on .

  • In footage from that moment, you can see Barr speak to the commander, after which the commander’s head droops with seemingly intentional melodrama.

  • Compared with the melodrama of many Masters, Matsuyama’s 1-over-par 73 on Sunday, during which he often had a five-shot lead, might seem an entertaining but not hair-raising Masters finale.

  • Hitchcock saw human behavior fresh, even in a tired form like melodrama.

  • The Lotus and the Storm turns out to be a grand, haunted melodrama with elements of camp, delivered in fragmentary reveries.

  • The deviating family melodrama has, thankfully, been replaced by shrewd spycraft.

  • The man of melodrama was not perceived as a fit for the postwar world.

  • But Precious—a modern melodrama with a hugely sympathetic HIV-positive teen at its heart, was a hit with critics and audiences.

  • Beneath this melodrama, the circumstances are recounted at great length, and some halting verses conclude the mournful narration.

  • The play may be pure comedy, comedy-drama, tragedyeven farceor melodrama.

  • Then it is sung softly like the farmhand quartettes do in the rural melodrama outside the old homestead in harvest time.

  • Valmond was alive to it all, almost too alive, for at first the flamboyancy of his spirit touched him off with melodrama.

  • The kaimakam had a taste for melodrama, and had the prisoners brought before him immediately.