bathos

英 [ˈbeɪθɒs]

美 [ˈbeɪθɑːs]

n.  突降(指严肃的内容突然变得荒谬，常非出自本意)

COCA.44141

牛津词典

noun

• 突降（指严肃的内容突然变得荒谬，常非出自本意）
  a sudden change, that is not always intended, from a serious subject or feeling to sth that is silly or not important

柯林斯词典

• （文学批评中的）突降法
  In literary criticism,bathosis a sudden change in speech or writing from a serious or important subject to a ridiculous or very ordinary one.

英英释义

noun

• a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one
  Synonym:anticlimax
• triteness or triviality of style
• insincere pathos
  Synonym:mawkishness

双语例句

• Spring was the real apex of the year; summer was bathos.
  春天是一年四季中真正的顶点，而夏天是高潮后的低潮。
• And he'll never be able to emerge from his bathos of coarseness and ignorance.
  他永远也不能从他那粗野无知中解脱出来。
• Michael Page's approach goes for bathos.
  MichaelPage追求意想不到的效果。