anticlimax

英 [ˌæntiˈklaɪmæks]

美 [ˌæntiˈklaɪmæks]

n.  扫兴的结局; 扫兴

复数：anticlimaxes　

GRE

BNC.33341 / COCA.30538

牛津词典

noun

• 扫兴的结局；扫兴
  a situation that is disappointing because it happens at the end of sth that was much more exciting, or because it is not as exciting as you expected
  1. Travelling in Europe was something of an anticlimax after the years he'd spent in Africa.
     他在非洲生活了多年，到欧洲旅行真是有点太平淡了。
  2. a sense/feeling of anticlimax
     扫兴感

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR （激动人心的事情之后）令人失望的情况，令人扫兴的事件
  You can describe something as ananticlimaxif it disappoints you because it happens after something that was very exciting, or because it is not as exciting as you expected.
  1. Barry's speech followed Dirk Bogarde's appearance, and was an inevitable anticlimax...
     巴里紧随德克·博加德之后发表了演讲，不出所料，演讲顿时变得索然无味。
  2. It was sad that his international career should end in such anticlimax.
     令人悲哀的是，他的国际职业生涯竟如此惨淡收场。

英英释义

noun

• a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one
  Synonym:bathos
• a disappointing decline after a previous rise
  1. the anticlimax of a brilliant career

双语例句

• It was sad that his international career should end in such anticlimax.
  令人悲哀的是，他的国际职业生涯竟如此惨淡收场。
• The movie was something of an anticlimax.
  这电影有点虎头蛇尾。
• The exams came, almost an anticlimax after the build-up that the students had given them.
  在学生们一番忙碌准备之后，随之而来的考试却出乎意料地平淡。
• They are more interested in the physical formation and rhetoric effects of anticlimax than in its inferential mechanism and interpretative procedure.
  它们更关注的是突降的外部构成特征及其修辞效果，而并没有深入其内部，去探究突降的理解过程及在此过程中所涉及到的推理机制。
• In this way, anticlimax often brings to an almost absurd conclusion, posing sharp contrast to addressees 'prior interpretations.
  通过这样的方式，突降总是引出一个与前部分理解形成有强烈对比的几乎荒谬的结论。
• The holiday itself was rather an anticlimax after all the excitement of planning it.
  尽管计划度假时兴致勃勃，而到头来假日本身却颇为扫兴。
• After the fine performance in the first act, the rest of the play was an anticlimax.
  后性能优良的第一幕，其余的发挥是一个虎头蛇尾。
• Within the frame of context theory, the thesis employs some actual cases of anticlimax to explore the explanatory power of contextual effects in comprehension. The argument concerning the effects of contextual strengthening and contextual contradiction is capable of explaining the underlying inferential mechanism of anticlimax.
  在关联理论语境观的构架下，文章探究了语境效果对突降的解释力，并得出：语境强化及语境冲突这样两类语境效果能很好地解释突降内在的推理机制。
• Even when you win a match there's often a sense of anticlimax& you always feel you could have played better or got a higher score.
  即使你在一次比赛中获胜了，也往往难免有一种不尽人意的感觉&你总是觉得你满可以赛得更好或得到更高的分数。
• The concert was something of an anticlimax because the star soloist never turned up.
  这次音乐会令人大失所望，因为那位著名的独奏演员始终没亮相。