anticlimax

anticlimax

英 [æntɪ'klaɪmæks]
　　美 [,æntɪ'klaɪmæks]

n. 突降法；虎頭蛇尾；令人掃興的結尾

中文詞源：

anticlimax 掃興的

前綴anti-, 相對，相反。climax, 高潮。

例句：

1. Barry's speech followed Dirk Bogarde's appearance, and was an inevitable anticlimax.
巴裡緊隨德克·博加德之後發表瞭演講，不出所料，演講頓時變得索然無味。

2. It was sad that his international career should end in such anticlimax.
令人悲哀的是，他的國際職業生涯竟如此慘淡收場。

3. Travelling in Europe was something of an anticlimax after the years he'd spent in Africa.
他在非洲生活瞭多年，到歐洲旅行真是有點太平淡瞭。

4. It was an anticlimax when they abandoned the game.
他們放棄比賽,真是掃興.

5. The holiday itself was rather an anticlimax after all the excitement of planning it.
盡管計劃度假時興致勃勃,而到頭來假日本身卻頗為掃興.