| 单词 | anticlimax |
| 释义 | anticlimax (once / 13586 pages) n If you think you’re approaching the high point, but then realize it’s really the low point, that’s an anticlimax — a moment when excitement quickly changes to disappointment. In a movie or book, a climax is the point where, after a long buildup, everything gets really intense and dramatic. But if there’s a lot of buildup and then suddenly something really boring happens, that’s an anticlimax. Like waiting all day to see fireworks, but then nobody has any matches. It can also mean discussing something important like war or art, and then someone interrupts to talk about candy. Talk about a letdown. WORD FAMILYanticlimax: anticlimactic, anticlimaxes+/anticlimactic: anticlimactical, anticlimactically/climactic: climactically/climax: anticlimax, climactic, climaxed, climaxes, climaxing USAGE EXAMPLESAnd if that happens, then the anticlimax of this long hiatus will be transformed into the most rousing development in franchise history. Seattle Times(Nov 22, 2016) This sense of anticlimax is unsurprising: “Empire” has never provided its protagonists with an enemy who truly feels like a match for Lucious himself. New York Times(Nov 09, 2016) The legal battle ended in anticlimax, as the FBI found another way into the iPhone. The Guardian(Oct 30, 2016) 1n a disappointing decline after a previous rise the anticlimax of a brilliant career Hyper downfall, fall a sudden decline in strength or number or importance 2n a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one Syn|Hyper bathos close, closing, conclusion, end, ending the last section of a communication |
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