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词汇 soap-opera
释义 soap opera
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈsəʊp ˌɒp.ər.ə/ us /ˈsoʊp ˌɑː.pɚ.ə/(informalsoap)
B1
a series of television or radio programmes about the lives and problems of a particular group of characters. The series continues over a long period and is broadcast (several times) every week.肥皂剧(展示一群角色的生活与遭遇的系列电视或广播节目,持续很长时间,通常每周(多次)播出)
Examples

It is her proud boast that she has never missed a single episode of the soap opera.
The new soap opera will be screened, wait for it, five times each day.
I know that if I start watching a soap opera I immediately become hopelessly addicted.我知道自己只要一开始看连续剧,就会马上上瘾,无法自拔。
He was interviewing some soap star.
I don't have time to watch any of the soaps.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Broadcasting: programmes & other broadcasts
action replay
binge-watch
blooper
breakfast television
breaking news
commentary
fly on the wallidiom
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green screen
hate-watch
procedural
radio broadcast
reality show
reality TV
rerun
sketch
syndicate
vox pop
webcast

soap opera | American Dictionary


soap opera
noun[ C ]
us/ˈsoʊp ˌɑp·rə/(infmlsoap, us/soʊp/)
a television program, usually broadcast five days a week, about the lives of a particular group of characters

Examples of soap opera


soap opera
Is this scientific history or geological soapopera?
Some of the critics said that it was a bit of a soapopera, and yet you had some very good audiences.
The key question, whether in a soapopera or a football match, a quiz or a cop show is what happens next.
Repetition is thus an inherent aspect of the meaningfulness of soapopera, and therefore it is also a significant way in which meaning is articulated through television's dominant narrative forms.
The subjective nature of this reference is palpably evident in the presence of the adjective dismal as well as of the compound noun epithet soapopera within the expression used.
The "soapopera" effect in story recall.
It has all been more extraordinary than any soapopera.
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The media could assist by factual reporting of the serious substance of our debates rather than portraying politics as a celebrity-driven soapopera.
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That is turning current affairs and historical affairs into a soapopera.
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If it is a quiz show it should be well done; if it is a soapopera it should be well done.
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We are now offered the prospect of documentary mountains and soapopera lakes simply to meet some daft and rigid quota system.
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The brass band world is as full of drama and fierce rivalries as any soapopera.
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We have an opportunity to end that soapopera.
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I have never heard in many months such an entertaining, ebullient and amusing form of soapopera.
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I agree with that, but a more insidious and troubling problem is caused less by drama and more by soapopera.
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