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soap opera

/op-er-uh, op-ruh/US // ˈɒp ər ə, ˈɒp rə //

肥皂剧,电视剧,皂角戏

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a radio or television series depicting the interconnected lives of many characters often in a sentimental, melodramatic way.

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Examples

  • A young woman writes radio soap operas in Cuba, where she falls in love with a director who brings her scripts to life.

  • It’s like a sitcom and a soap opera, and a drama and a documentary because we’re also highlighting and accurately portraying this aspect of immigrant life, Nigerian immigrant life.

  • The drama, simmering for years, may appear to be a stand-alone soap opera pitting the mercurial Rodgers against the rigid Packers, who seldom stray from their sustainable team-building model.

  • While marketers dabbling in entertainment is nothing new — the soap opera was created thanks to Procter & Gamble’s sponsorship, after all — how brands do so has evolved.

  • The show retains some of the primetime soap opera elements of Riverdale, but it incorporates more full-blown horror without bowing to the niceties imposed by network television.

  • It was a Senate floor soap opera over none other than a soap-opera producer.

  • One of the most horrific episodes of the Vietnam War is being made into a government-funded opera.

  • One beginning that amused him takes place at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.

  • White King Soap sponsored the show on the West Coast, and Beech-Nut Gum in the East.

  • It is impossible to talk about Dr. Strange without mentioning soap, apple juice, and suicide.

  • A small contingent of the members hurried off to applaud the successful comic opera of the hour.

  • Why use dangerous cosmetics when Jones' soap retains youth and health for the complexion, and fosters the development of beauty?

  • At the present time he was trombone in the “Tournée Gulland,” a touring opera company.

  • Why, he ordered his chamber-maid to bring him some soap and warm water, that he might wash the sour krout off his hands.

  • That you did not steal from her house by a secret passage, on the night of the destruction of the opera-house?

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