单词 | tragedy |
释义 | tragedy n. (pl. -ies)   1. a serious accident, crime, or natural catastrophe.   2. a sad event; a calamity (the team's defeat is a tragedy).   3. a a play in verse or prose dealing with tragic events and with an unhappy ending, esp. concerning the downfall of the protagonist. b tragic plays as a genre (cf. COMEDY). Etymology: ME f. OF tragedie f. L tragoedia f. Gk tragoidia app. goat-song f. tragos goat + oide song |
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