gallows humor

短语

n. 充满怨恨的幽默

发音

AU

别名

gallows humour

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A form of comedy that still manages to be humorous in the face of, and in response to, a tragic or hopeless situation.

    绞架幽默

    美国 习语 不可数

    1931, "German Falstaff" (review of The Mirror of Fools by Alfred Neumann), Time, 16 Jan., Author Neumann defiantly admits why he wrote this historical-romantic farce: "Because I wanted to fight against the general and my personal depression, and because in hard and bad times there is always one tragicomic feeling in place—gallows humor."