bathos

n. 突降法, 陈腐, 虚伪

发音

UK /ˈbeɪθɒs/

词形变化

bathoses 复数 bathoses

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.

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  2. 2.

    A risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to

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  3. 3.

    A risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to:

    An anticlimax: an abrupt transition in style or subject from high to low.

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  4. 4.

    A risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to:

    A banality: an unaffectingly clichéd or trite treatment of a topic.

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  5. 5.

    A risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to:

    Immaturity: a lack of serious treatment of a topic.

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  6. 6.

    A risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to:

    A hyperbole: excessiveness.

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  7. 7.

    The ironic use of such failure for satiric or humorous effect.

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  8. 8.

    A nadir, a low point particularly in one's career.

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词汇关系

词源

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βάθος (báthos, “depth”). Employed ironically following Alexander Pope's Peri Bathous, lampooning various errors in contemporary writers.

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