tragedy 的定义
plural trag·e·dies.
- a lamentable, dreadful, or fatal event or affair; calamity; disaster: stunned by the tragedy of so many deaths.
- a dramatic composition, often in verse, dealing with a serious or somber theme, typically involving a great person destined to experience downfall or utter destruction, as through a character flaw or conflict with some overpowering force, as fate or an unyielding society.
- the branch of the drama that is concerned with this form of composition.
- the art and theory of writing and producing tragedies.
- any literary composition, as a novel, dealing with a somber theme carried to a tragic or disastrous conclusion.
- the tragic or mournful or calamitous element of drama, of literature generally, or of life.
tragedy 近义词
disaster
更多tragedy例句
- Right now we have a president who turns our tragedies into political weapons.
- The skit compares the Death Star’s destruction to the heinous tragedy that befell America nineteen years ago.
- The video of Jacob Blake’s shooting feels like a repeat of the same kind of tragedy, showing an officer repeatedly shooting Blake in the back.
- The pandemic has been an unprecedented event on a truly planetary scale, one that has sadly given people all over the world a unifying human experience through tragedy.
- The past few months have taught us once again that the greatest tragedies in the world do not affect everyone equally.
- When twelve people are killed by violence, whoever they are, for whatever reason, that is a tragedy and a waste.
- It generates tragedy, violence, and a windfall for undertakers.
- Yes, publicizing tragedy gets clicks, gets ad revenue, gets notoriety, and can be done for all the wrong reasons.
- Does the sending of the message “justify” the tragedy that caused it?
- The fate of AirAsia Flight 8501 and the 162 souls on board is a tragedy, but it will not remain a mystery for much longer.
- Several pioneers familiar with the facts of the tragedy at the time of its occurrence were also present.
- Happening to walk down the Rue Saint Honoré, he had come upon tragedy.
- A heaviness as of unguessed tragedy lay upon all three, not only upon Tom.
- She had seen little of the tragedy enacted in Meerut; she knew less of its real horrors.
- She produced the tragedy of Agnes de Castro in her 17th year, which was followed by several others.