| 词汇 | melodrama |
| 释义 | melodrama noun[ C or U ] uk /ˈmel.əˌdrɑː.mə/ us /ˈmel.əˌdræm.ə/ a story, play, or film in which the characters show stronger emotions than real people usually do: 情节剧 a television melodrama一部电视情节剧 mainly UKThe car's hardly damaged - there's no need to make a melodrama out of it (= make the situation more important than it is).这辆车几乎没受什么损坏，没必要把事情闹大。 Types of film, play, book etc. action thriller adaptation Afrofuturism allegorical anime bodice-ripper boy-meets-girl director's cut noir non-documentary non-literary one-shot paean parody potboiler psychological sequel stream of consciousness tragicomedy weepy melodrama | American Dictionarymelodrama noun[ C/U ] us/ˈmel·əˌdrɑ·mə, -ˌdræm·ə/ literature a play or style of acting in which the characters behave and show emotion in a more noticeable way than real people usually do Examples of melodramamelodrama All nineteenth-century melodramas suggest a need for radical change in the lives of the powerless and the oppressed, and in this they are inherently radical. Certain forms of melodrama might be improbable, but were acceptable so long as they had such a moral. The reign of healthy melodrama is over: the reign of analysis has commenced. Nor do they feature the social unrest and anarchism common to other factory melodramas. Also, traditionally, the melodrama portrayed social problems in terms of individual happiness. Popular melodramas, by definition, play off of viewers' expectations and innate hunches about plot and character development, problem, and denouement. That, of course, is the stuff of which melodrama is made. Besides melodrama and dime-store romance, the novel is studded with nuggets of politically instructive detail. A hybrid of various strains within nineteenth-century fiction, the sensation genre reflects the influence of stage melodrama and prefigures crime and detective fiction. Deploying the common rhetoric of melodrama, the bill's opponents insisted that women were fragile creatures, the easy prey of libertines and seducers. Several films were in fact made of the most popular melodramas. Moreover, the puppet show presents an interesting and important contrast with the theatrical genre of melodrama. Finally, this move is also inspired by some recent accounts of melodrama by anthropologists. Yet as entertaining and quotable as all the melodrama is, the dry physiological voice is in the end more radical. But he also, like the anti-poor law cartoonists of the 1830s and 1840s, responds to a tradition of radical melodrama. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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