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

• 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。
• It was an anticlimax, to say the least, when we at last reached the Anchorage airport for our flight home.
  这是一个虎头蛇尾，至少可以说，当我们在去年达到了安克雷奇机场为我们的航班。
• 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。
• 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。
• Anticlimax is quite distinctive among diversified figures of speech.
  在繁多的修辞中，突降很有自己的特色。
• 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。
• Polling day was uneventful, a bit of an anticlimax.
  投票那天反倒平平淡淡，未免有点煞风景。
• Based on them, the research of the pragmatic features of anticlimax is practiced with no difficulty.
  在此基础上，对突降进行语用特征研究更容易了。
• The movie was something of an anticlimax.
  这电影有点虎头蛇尾。
• 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。