| 单词 | travesty |
| 释义 | travesty I. 1. a. < achieves a ludicrous effect in his travesty of the epic as a melodramatic farce > < the image I saw there … but a travesty, cunningly made of enameled clay or some other material, and put there by some malicious enemy to mock me — W.H.Hudson †1922 > b. < some of them deliberately distort to achieve a primitive effect and the result is a travesty — Esther Warner > c. < such a travesty of a horse … that if it had been galloped it would have fallen down and broken its neck — David Masters > < dismembered so much and misinterpreted so much else as to leave … a travesty rather than a document — Irving Kolodin > < had been arrested and tried and four of them executed … a shocking travesty on justice — R.M.Lovett > < a travesty of democracy … votes were openly sold and openly quoted on the market — C.P.Fitzgerald > 2. < the falling of the masks occasions a living change … when they continue dancing, unmasked, still in their travesties — Sacheverell Sitwell > < the male principle … evaporated into travesty, girls assuming the dress of boys — Lincoln Kirstein > Synonyms: see caricature II. 1. < the great medieval style was … travestied in materials and design — American Guide Series: Michigan > 2. < to travesty human nature without … cruelty is a great and wonderful art — J.S.Clarke > < later examples … travestied the classic style rather than copied it — American Guide Series: Massachusetts > |
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