英语词汇“anticlimax”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

anticlimax

(æntiklaɪmæks )

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 whimperT.S. EliotThe Hollow Men

单词	anticlimax
释义	anticlimax (æntiklaɪmæks ) 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 whimperT.S. EliotThe Hollow Men
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