melodrama

• n. 情节剧；音乐剧；耸人听闻的事件，闹剧

来自法语melodrame,歌舞剧，来自希腊语melos,歌，词源同melody,韵律，旋律，drama,戏剧。后引申词义浪漫爱情歌舞剧，夸张的爱情剧，情节剧，通俗剧等。

melodrama (n.)

1784 (1782 as melo drame), "a stage-play in which songs were interspersed and music accompanied the action," from French mélodrame (18c.), from Greek melos "song" (see melody) + French drame "drama" (see drama). Meaning "a romantic and sensational dramatic piece with a happy ending" is from 1883, because this was often the form of the original melodramas. Also from French are Spanish melodrama, Italian melodramma, German melodram. Related: Melodramatize.

The melodramatist's task is to get his characters labelled good & wicked in his audience's minds, & to provide striking situations that shall provoke & relieve anxieties on behalf of poetic justice. [Fowler]

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2. The action slips from comedy to melodrama and finally to tragedy.

剧情从喜剧逐渐发展为情节剧，最后又演变为悲剧。

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3. a gripping Victorian melodrama

动人心弦的维多利亚时代情节剧

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4. And sadly, there is hypocrisy all around in this melodrama.

令人悲哀的是, 这场闹剧中充满了只许州官放火,不许百姓点灯的双重标准.

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5. It had all the elements of melodrama you could want.

这其中你可以找到你想要看的情节紧张剧中的一切要素.

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