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单词 bathos
释义 ba·thos
\ˈbāˌthäs, -ȯs, -ōs also ˈba-\ noun
(-es)
Etymology: Greek, depth, from bathys deep — more at bathy-
1. : the lowest phase : bottom, nadir
 < the very bathos of stupidity — Frederick Marryat >
2.
 a. : the sudden or unexpected appearance of the commonplace in writing or speaking otherwise elevated in style or content
  < this habit of cultivating bathos … has become one of modern poetry's most persistent vices — D.J.Enright >
 b. : anticlimax, comedown
  < spring was the real apex of the year. Summer was bathos — Jan Struther >
3. : exceptional commonplaceness : triteness, flatness
 < some have deplored the aridity and attributed to it the bathos and prosing of the less successful ballads — Roger Sharrock >
 < its relentless conformity … filled him at first with a deep feeling of bathos — Fred Majdalany >
4. : insincere or overdone pathos : excessive sentimentality : sentimentalism, maudlinism
 < the bathos of the “my old mammy” theme — Lillian Smith >
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