单词	melodrama
释义	melodramamel‧o‧dra‧ma /ˈmelədrɑːmə $ -drɑːmə, -dræmə/ noun [countable, uncountable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINmelodrama Origin: 1800-1900 French mélodrame, from Greek melos ( ➔ MELODY) + French drame ‘drama’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Why does she have to turn everything into a melodrama? EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Few events this century have rivaled the sinking of the Titanic for sheer melodrama. Hale met in the hogan with committee members and talked for more than three hours about the melodrama. In many respects Griffith was a conventional story-teller and melodrama was always really the framework of his themes. In theory, a star-driven period melodrama with top-notch production values should have been an attractive proposition for distributors. Recounted with even a trace of melodrama, this story would read like a soap opera. Some of the description is superb, but the climbing remains unconvincing, slipping too easily into melodrama and strange terminology. This has been a constant melodrama. This was Abba's tour de force, a brilliantly structured melodrama which put Faltskog's fragile, emotional vocal centre stage. 1a story or play in which very exciting or terrible things happen, and in which the characters and the emotions they show seem too strong to be real:  He was behaving like a character in a Victorian melodrama.2a situation in which people become more angry or upset than is really necessary:  Come on, there’s no need for all this melodrama.
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