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单词 anticlimax
释义
anticlimax
(æntiklmæks )
Word forms: anticlimaxes
variable noun
You can describe something as an anticlimax if it disappoints you because it happens after something that was very exciting, or because it is not as exciting as you expected.
After such a promising approach, the cave in itself was something of an anticlimax.
It was sad that his international career should end in such anticlimax.
Synonyms: disappointment, letdown, comedown [informal], bathos  
Quotations:
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper
T.S. EliotThe Hollow Men
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