anticlimax

[.ænti'klaimæks]

n.突降, 急转而下, 虎头蛇尾

例句与用法：

The holiday itself was rather an anticlimax after all the excitement of planning it.

尽管计划度假时兴致勃勃，而到头来假日本身却颇为扫兴。

词形变化：

形容词: anticlimactic | 副词: anticlimactically |

n.

1. 【语】突降法

2. 虎头蛇尾; 令人扫兴的结尾

anticlimax

词形变化：

形容词: anticlimactic | 副词: anticlimactically |

同义词：

anticlimactical |

反义词：

climactic |

anticlimax[,ænti'klaimæks]n.1.■【修辞学】突降法(指说话或写作中从有重大意义的精彩内容突然转入平淡或荒谬的内容)2.■(在重要性、兴趣、品质等方面)突降，突减；虎头蛇尾；(在精彩的高潮之后)苍白无力(或令人扫兴)的结尾；(尊严、权威、命运等的)突然衰败

1. a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
   （一连串激动人心或令人印象深刻的事情之后）令人扫兴的结尾
   the rest of the journey was an anticlimax by comparison.
   相比之下，旅途的剩余部分实在令人扫兴。
   [mass noun]a sense of anticlimax and incipient boredom.
   令人扫兴的结果之后产生的厌烦之感。
   

anticlimax

名词 anticlimax:

a disappointing decline after a previous rise

a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one

同义词：bathos

anticlimax

■* After the fine performance in the first act, the rest of the play was an anticlimax.

*后性能优良的第一幕，其余的发挥是一个虎头蛇尾。

■As Scrimgeour pulled out the tiny, walnut-sized golden ball, its silver wings fluttered rather feebly, and Harry could not help feeling a definite sense of anticlimax.

Scrimgeour取出一只胡桃大小的金色小球,小球的银翼有气无力地拍打着。哈利油然生起失望和失落之情。

■"Waggish non-Yale men never seem weary of calling ‘for God, for Country and for Yale’ the outstanding single anticlimax in the English language" (Time)

“爱开玩笑的非耶鲁人从不厌倦说‘为了上帝，为了国家，为了耶鲁’，这是英语中一个典型的突降法例子”(时代)

■It was an anticlimax when they abandoned the game.

他们放弃比赛,真是扫兴。

■Travelling in Europe was something of an anticlimax after the years he'd spent in Africa.

他在非洲生活了多年，到欧洲旅行真是有点太平淡了。

■But it proved an anticlimax.

但这产生的是反高潮的效果。

■Why bother trying to be all lawful all the time, if my whole life was leading to one big anticlimax?

假如我这一生将走到一个非常令人扫兴的结局，我又何必时刻坚守守序阵营呢?

■1.Why bother trying to be all lawful all the time, if my whole life was leading to one big anticlimax?

假如我这一生将走到一个非常令人扫兴的结局，我又何必时刻坚守守序阵营呢？

■Perceiving that the conclusion of his phrase was somewhat of an anticlimax, he added hurriedly, “There is only one Paris in the world.

发觉这一结论不如刚才说的有力，他又急忙补充：“全世界只有一个巴黎。

■The passionate debate about Everett's theory therefore seems to be ending in a grand anticlimax, with the discovery of less controversial multiverses (Levels I and II) that are equally large.

因此只要发现同样巨大但比较没有争议的多重宇宙（第一和第二层次），对艾佛烈理论的热烈争辩似乎就可以圆满画下句点了。

■After a week of dramatic negotiations, all that followed was anticlimax.

在一星期戏剧性的谈判之后，所有的结尾都是令人扫兴的

■After a week of dramatic negotiations,all that followed was anticlimax.

在一星期戏剧性的谈判之后，所有的结尾都是令人扫兴的。

■Late in the alexandrian period, Pappus' additions to geometry came as a sort of anticlimax

在亚历山大里亚晚期出现的Pappus对几何学的工作是高潮后的一种低潮。

■Before the listener knows where he is, the mounting tension is lifted in a pianissimo anticlimax.

在听众不知不觉之间，紧张气氛在最弱音的突减中被提升了。

■On a bright autumn day in New Haven that last line of the college song, “For God For country and for Yale,” may not seem quite the classic definition of anticlimax that it is.

在纽黑文的校园里，秋季里明亮的阳光射在校歌的最后一行上，“为了上帝，为了国家以及为了耶鲁！”经典的曲调也许不再经典。

■The circus act came as an anticlimax after the big build up given by the ring master.

在马戏团领班的大捧场后，这个马戏院团的表演却出现了令人扫兴的结尾。

■The holiday itself was rather an anticlimax after all the excitement of planningit.

尽管计划度假时兴致勃勃,而到头来假日本身却颇为扫兴。

■The holiday itself is rather an anticlimax after all the excitement of planning it.

尽管计划度假时兴致勃勃，而到头来假日本身却颇为扫兴。

■To me, this means that Christmas starts with a bang and then lingers briefly but pleasantly, rather than being a long slog to an inevitable anticlimax, whereupon the tree is thrown out on Boxing Day.

我本人多少有些守旧：我认为装饰应该在圣诞节前几天进行（有人说应该在基督降临节的最后一个周日，还有人说应该在圣诞前夜），然后保留12整天。

■a sense/feeling of anticlimax

扫兴感

■This anticlimax has president Claudio Lotito worried, and according to reports he is willing to spend money in the new year to bring a fresh face or two into the capital club.

拉齐奥本赛季的高开低走愁坏了洛蒂托，据报道他已经准备在新年伊始为球队带来2到3名新面孔。

■It would have been an anticlimax just to return to the station and wait for the next train, and Fangfang was already thinking about spending the night here!

时间还早，回去等下一班列车会是件扫兴的事。

■This anticlimax leads to most sport-climbing accidents: The route is "over,"so the leader and belayer stop concentrating; one of them make a mistake, and the guy on the rock ends up splattered on the ground.

此时攀登者和确保者都很容易将注意力分散并不再保持联系，这也正是运动攀登最常发生意外的步骤。

■To blink away ten thousand years just to wake beneath a cloud of green and violet gas, however lovely, seemed like a terrible anticlimax.

穿越一万年的旅程，而后在绿色和紫色的云层下醒来，无论景观多么美好，都会让人大失所望吧。

■Anticlimax and Translation of Its Implication in Word Order

突降格及其语序意义的再现

■Anticlimax, a humorous figure of speech, refers to a sudden change of speech from something serious or exciting to something unimportant or uninteresting.

突降，一种英语修辞手段，指说话人或写作中从重大意义的内容突然转入平淡或荒谬的内容。

■Anticlimax On Anticlimax as a Figure of Speech

谈修辞格

■the anticlimax of a brilliant career.

辉煌事业的急转而下

■The announcement was in a sense of anticlimax, since it implicitly recognized the failure of their plan.

这个声明真是大煞风景，因为它等于承认他们的计划已经失败了。

■8. Why bother trying to be all lawful all the time, if my whole life was leading to one big anticlimax?

这是你一生中会发生的最重要的事，因为现在你知道，圣诞老人没有像你我这样的人让他活着，他就不会存在。收藏指正