| 单词 | happy ending |
| 释义 | > as lemmashappy ending happy ending n. (a) an ending in a novel, play, etc., in which the plot achieves a happy resolution (esp. by marriage, continued good health, etc.), of a type sometimes regarded as trite or conventional; also in extended use; (b) U.S. an orgasm, esp. one experienced by a man after sexual stimulation given after (or during) a massage; cf. massage parlour n. (a) at massage n.2 Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > orgasm happy ending1748 orgasm1754 spending1856 climax1873 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [noun] > plot plat1589 plot1613 paper-plot1622 bone1647 intrigue1651 action1668 intrigo1672 fable1678 story1679 happy ending1748 storyline1906 plot line1907 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > plot > parts of plot envoy1616 undermirth1640 counter-turn1651 under-walk1651 deus ex machina1697 happy ending1748 dénouement1752 anagnorisis1783 comic relief1783 by-play1812 tragic irony1833 by-plot1851 dramatic irony1881 plot point1909 cliff-hanging1945 subtext1960 1602 tr. G. Corrozet Memorable Conceits 190 A good entrie or beginning is not all, without it haue a happie ending.] 1748 S. Richardson Let. 10 May (1964) 87 The greater Vulgar, as well as the less, had rather it [sc. Clarissa] had had what they call, an Happy Ending. 1795 R. Cumberland Henry I. iii. i. 202 Examples muster strongest for the story with a happy ending. 1884 H. James in Longman's Mag. Sept. 506 Another would say that it depends for a ‘happy ending’ on a distribution at the last of prizes, pensions, husbands, wives, babies, millions, appended paragraphs and cheerful remarks. 1934 E. Wharton Backward Glance vii. 147 The American public always wants..a tragedy with a happy ending. 1957 N. Frye Anat. Crit. 104 Most students of literature prefer to keep in the middle distance..run-of-the-mill Elizabethan sonnets and love lyrics,..nineteenth-century happy-ending novels. 1999 Weekend Austral. (Nexis) 14 Aug. (Review section) 8 ‘We are seeing more and more women accompanying their men in here,’ she says of her parlour, which provides ‘massage only’ but with a guaranteed ‘happy ending’. 2010 H. Jacobson Finkler Question iii. 71 Jane Austen waves her wand and conjures a happy ending at the eleventh hour. 2011 S. Brockmann Breaking Rules viii. 129 I thought it went massage, then happy ending? < as lemmas |
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