英语词汇anticlimax的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

anticlimax. Dr. Johnson seems to have invented or at least been the first to record the word anticlimax, which he defines as “a sentence in which the last part expresses something lower than the first.” Pope used the anticlimax humorously in his line “Men, monkeys, lap-dogs, parrots, perish all.” Everyone has a favorite anticlimax, fine examples of which can be found in the Anthology of Bad Verse by Wyndham Lewis and C. Lee, but one of the best is the last line of Tennyson’s poem “Enoch Arden” (1864), in which Enoch Arden, thought dead at sea, returns home after some years to find his wife happily married, and re- solves that she won’t know of his return until his death. The poem ends this way:

词汇	anticlimax
词源	anticlimax. Dr. Johnson seems to have invented or at least been the first to record the word anticlimax, which he defines as “a sentence in which the last part expresses something lower than the first.” Pope used the anticlimax humorously in his line “Men, monkeys, lap-dogs, parrots, perish all.” Everyone has a favorite anticlimax, fine examples of which can be found in the Anthology of Bad Verse by Wyndham Lewis and C. Lee, but one of the best is the last line of Tennyson’s poem “Enoch Arden” (1864), in which Enoch Arden, thought dead at sea, returns home after some years to find his wife happily married, and re- solves that she won’t know of his return until his death. The poem ends this way: So past the strong heroic soul away. And when they buried him, the little port Had seldom seen a costlier funeral.
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