| 英语单词 | tragedy |
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| 英美音标 | 英 ['trædʒədi] 美 ['trædʒədi] |
| 中文释义 | n.悲剧;灾难;惨事 |
| 英语例句 | (1) Tragedy is in store for that poor girl from the beginning. (2) Shakespeare's Hamlet is a very famous tragedy. (3) It was not long before tragedy struck again. (4) This recent tragedy has put the manufacturersof the drug squarely in the dock. (5) It was a tragedy that she died so young. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 从一开始,那个女孩的悲剧就是不可避免的。 (2) 莎士比亚的《哈姆雷特》是一部十分著名的悲剧。 (3) 没多久,灾难又再次降临。 (4) 新近发生的这一悲惨事件使药品厂商受到指控。 (5) 她这么年轻就去世,真是太不幸了。 |
| vocabulary简明 | Tragedy is a noun that indicates disaster or bad fortune. It would be a tragedy to lose your job, but an even greater tragedy to fall ill while unemployed and without health care. |
| vocabulary扩展 | First recorded in the late 14th century, the noun tragedy originally referred to a play with an unhappy ending. About a century later it also came to mean an unhappy event or a disaster. The playwright George Bernard Shaw wittily observed, "“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.” The comedian Mel Brooks defined tragedy as follows: "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die." |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-VAR 可变名词]不幸;灾难;惨剧 A tragedy is an extremely sad event or situation.
2 [N-VAR 可变名词]悲剧(作品) Tragedy is a type of literature, especially drama, that is serious and sad, and often ends with the death of the main character.
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