| 单词 | crime drama |
| 释义 | > as lemmascrime drama b. attributive designating books, films, etc., having crime as their theme, as crime drama, crime film, crime story, etc. ΚΠ 1886 Academy 11 Dec. 762/1 To say anything about the story of a book of this sort is fatal to its peculiar interest; so we shall end by commending it to lovers of the crime-story. 1906 Daily Chron. 15 May 3/5 All the stock characters of..crime-romance are here. 1928 Times 12 May 12/3 Her delicate figure and manner are..not for the full-throated passion of a crime play. 1935 Ann. Reg. 1934 ii. 307 A cinema in Chicago where he was enjoying a ‘crime film’. 1971 C. Watson Snobbery with Violence i. 23 An increasing number of writers after 1870, the year of Dickens's death, turned their ingenuity and energy to the construction of crime stories. 1987 D. Clandfield Canad. Film iv. 82 Yves Simoneau has made a number of stylish films for a broader audience, including two crime-thrillers. 2002 Time 8 Apr. 72/1 The stylish crime show has unseated ER as TV's most watched drama. < as lemmas |
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