• n. 突降法；陳腐；矯揉造作

希臘語，詞源同base, 低，底。abyss, 深淵。一種藝術修辭手法，指突然從最高降到最低。

bathos

bathos: [18] Bathos, the descent from the sublime to the commonplace, means etymologically ‘depth’. It represents Greek báthos, a derivative of the adjective bathús ‘deep’ (which has also given English such technical terms as bathyal ‘of the deep sea’, bathymetry, bathyscaphe, and bathysphere). The use of the word in English seems to have been initiated by the poet Alexander Pope (1688–1744), in his Bathos.

bathos (n.)

"anticlimax, a descent from the sublime to the ridiculous," 1727, from Greek bathos "depth," related to bathys "deep" (see benthos). Introduced by Pope.

1. Spring was the real apex of the year; summer was bathos.

春天是一年四季中真正的頂點, 而夏天是高潮后的低潮.

來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》

2. He'll never be able to emerge from his bathos of coarseness and ignorance.

他永遠也不能從他那粗野無知中解脫出來.

來自辭典例句

3. Worth's war was one that went from high excitement to moments of bathos.

沃思經歷了戰爭的最興奮時期,直到戰爭的最后時刻.

來自互聯網