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单词 anticlimax
释义

anticlimax

/antɪˈklʌɪmaks /
noun
A disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events: the rest of the journey was an anticlimax by comparison [mass noun]: a sense of anticlimax and incipient boredom...
  • Of course, he was eventually to read the novel in its original Spanish, but as he was to describe it, the experience was a disappointing anticlimax.
  • This film feels like nothing more than a series of anticlimaxes wrapped within one large anticlimax.
  • I would not understand until later that Marshall was letting me in on a little secret about how history is made: through a series of anticlimaxes.

Synonyms

let-down, disappointment, comedown, non-event;
disillusionment;
bathos;
British damp squib
informal washout, not what it was cracked up to be
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