bathos: [18] Bathos, the descent from the sublime to the commonplace, means etymologically ‘depth’. It represents Greek báthos, a derivative of the adjective bathús ‘deep’ (which has also given English such technical terms as bathyal ‘of the deep sea’, bathymetry, bathyscaphe, and bathysphere). The use of the word in English seems to have been initiated by the poet Alexander Pope (1688–1744), in his Bathos.
bathos (n.)
"anticlimax, a descent from the sublime to the ridiculous," 1727, from Greek bathos "depth," related to bathys "deep" (see benthos). Introduced by Pope.
雙語例句
1. Spring was the real apex of the year; summer was bathos.
春天是一年四季中真正的頂點, 而夏天是高潮后的低潮.
來自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》
2. He'll never be able to emerge from his bathos of coarseness and ignorance.
他永遠也不能從他那粗野無知中解脫出來.
來自辭典例句
3. Worth's war was one that went from high excitement to moments of bathos.