melodrama是什么意思

melodrama

英 ['mel?(?)drɑ?m?] 美 ['m?l?drɑm?]

melodrama 情節劇，通俗劇

來自法語melodrame,歌舞劇，來自希臘語melos,歌，詞源同melody,韻律，旋律，drama,戲劇。后引申詞義浪漫愛情歌舞劇，夸張的愛情劇，情節劇，通俗劇等。

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]

1. The video was seven minutes of high camp and melodrama.: 那段錄像里是7分鐘極盡夸張搞笑的鬧劇表演。

2. The action slips from comedy to melodrama and finally to tragedy.: 劇情從喜劇逐漸發展為情節劇，最后又演變為悲劇。

4. And sadly, there is hypocrisy all around in this melodrama.: 令人悲哀的是, 這場鬧劇中充滿了只許州官放火,不許百姓點燈的雙重標準.

5. It had all the elements of melodrama you could want.: 這其中你可以找到你想要看的情節緊張劇中的一切要素.