anticlimax是什么意思？

anticlimax

英[ˌæntiˈklaɪmæks] 美[ˌæntiˈklaɪˌmæks, ˌæntaɪ-]

• n. 突降法，虎头蛇尾，苍白无力的结尾，令人扫兴的结尾；

复数：anticlimaxes;

形容词：anticlimactic;

例句

• In fact, one of the most common game failures is anticlimax. 实际上, 游戏最常见的失败之一便是渐趋平淡.
• It was an anticlimax when they abandoned the game. 他们放弃比赛,真是扫兴.
• The exams came, almost an anticlimax after the build-up that the students had given them. 在学生们一番忙碌准备之后，随之而来的考试却出乎意料地平淡。
• It was sad that his international career should end in such anticlimax. 令人悲哀的是，他的国际职业生涯竟如此惨淡收场。
• Barry's speech followed Dirk Bogarde's appearance, and was an inevitable anticlimax... 巴里紧随德克·博加德之后发表了演讲，不出所料，演讲顿时变得索然无味。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-VAR
  （激动人心的事情之后）令人失望的情况，令人扫兴的事件
  You can describe something as an anticlimax if it disappoints you because it happens after something that was very exciting, or because it is not as exciting as you expected.
  例句
  Barry's speech followed Dirk Bogarde's appearance, and was an inevitable anticlimax... 巴里紧随德克·博加德之后发表了演讲，不出所料，演讲顿时变得索然无味。 It was sad that his international career should end in such anticlimax. 令人悲哀的是，他的国际职业生涯竟如此惨淡收场。

英汉词典释义

• n.
  虎头蛇尾;苍白无力的结尾；令人扫兴的结尾
  It was an anticlimax when they abandoned the game. 他们放弃比赛,真是扫兴。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. a disappointing decline after ad previous rise;
  "the anticlimax of a brilliant career"
  2. a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one