| 单词 | tragi-farce |
| 释义 | > as lemmastragi-farce 1. Forming nouns with the sense ‘tragedy and ——’ or ‘tragic ——’, as tragi-catastrophe, tragi-drama, tragi-farce, tragi-romance, etc. See also tragicomedy n., tragi-comedietta n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > one who or that which is comical > combination of comical and tragic tragico-comedy1603 tragicomedy1603 tragicomicality1830 tragi-farce1893 1735 J. Oldmixon Hist. Eng.: Queen Anne 430/1 Sacheverel was so profane as to bring the Character of a Comedy into his Sermon, which in Truth was of itself a Tragi-Farce. 1811 Henry & Isabella I. 169 The love of tragi-catastrophe, common to vulgar minds. 1893 Sat. Rev. 1 Apr. 342/1 The pitiable tragi-farce of French politics. 1927 Daily Express 10 May 8/2 While this tragi-farce continues, a business in which £50,000,000 of British money is invested has been thrown into jeopardy. 1976 Newsweek (Nexis) 28 June 48 ‘The Threepenny Opera’, the Bertolt Brecht tragi-musical now at Lincoln Center. 1990 Illustr. London News Summer 91/4 This modern Jacobean tragi-drama by Peter Flannery is a blackly comic view of post-war British society. 2006 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 15 Jan. vii. 1/4 Ang Lee's gay Western tragi-romance ‘Brokeback Mountain’. < as lemmas |
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