| 单词 | adventure story |
| 释义 | > as lemmasadventure story a. Designating or relating to any of various related genres of fiction or drama which depict an episodic series of hazardous or exciting situations, daring actions, etc.; esp. in adventure story. Cf. sense 4b. ΚΠ 1882 St. Nicholas Jan. 260/2 The finest and longest adventure-stories that were ever written. 1896 G. Saintsbury Hist. 19th Cent. Lit. vii. 337 With a touch of Bulwerian romance, something of the sporting novel, and a good deal of the adventure story, Smedley united plenty of pleasant humour. 1912 S. E. White Land of Footpr. i. 7 The adventure writer, half unconsciously perhaps, has been too much occupied in play-acting himself into half-forgotten boyhood heroics. 1940 Horizon Mar. 176 The Gem in addition to its school-story carries one or more adventure-serials. 1979 Arizona Daily Star 1 Apr. (Tucson T.V. Suppl.) 4/6 ‘Flight to Tangiers’... A 1953 adventure-drama starring Joan Fontaine and Jack Palance. 2001 C. Freeland But is it Art? iii. 63 It would be impossible to disentangle strands of influence in the spaghetti western, samurai film, Hollywood action flick, Indian adventure story, and Hong Kong cinema. < as lemmas |
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