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单词 melodrama
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melodrama
noun[CorU]
uk
/ˈmel.əˌdrɑː.mə/us
/ˈmel.əˌdræm.ə/
astory,play, orfilmin which thecharactersshowstrongeremotionsthanrealpeopleusually do:
情节剧
atelevisionmelodrama一部电视情节剧
mainlyUKThe car'shardlydamaged- there's no need tomakea melodramaout ofit(= make thesituationmoreimportantthan it is).这辆车几乎没受什么损坏，没必要把事情闹大。
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Types of film, play, book etc.
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  • autobiographical
  • computer-animated
  • cyberpunk
  • episodic
  • Gothic
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  • lampoon
  • procedural
  • prosy
  • pulpy
  • satirical
  • science fiction
  • self-referential
  • SFF
  • smash
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(Definition ofmelodramafrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

melodrama| American Dictionary

melodrama
noun[C/U]
us
/ˈmel·əˌdrɑ·mə,-ˌdræm·ə/
literature
aplayorstyleofactingin which thecharactersbehaveand showemotionin a morenoticeableway thanrealpeopleusually do
(Definition ofmelodramafrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmelodrama

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All nineteenth-century melodramas suggest a need for radical change in the lives of the powerless and the oppressed, and in this they are inherently radical.
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Certain forms ofmelodramamight be improbable, but were acceptable so long as they had such a moral.
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The reign of healthymelodramais over: the reign of analysis has commenced.
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Nor do they feature the social unrest and anarchism common to other factory melodramas.
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Also, traditionally, themelodramaportrayed social problems in terms of individual happiness.
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Popular melodramas, by definition, play off of viewers' expectations and innate hunches about plot and character development, problem, and denouement.
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That, of course, is the stuff of whichmelodramais made.
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Besidesmelodramaand dime-store romance, the novel is studded with nuggets of politically instructive detail.
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A hybrid of various strains within nineteenth-century fiction, the sensation genre reflects the influence of stagemelodramaand prefigures crime and detective fiction.
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Deploying the common rhetoric ofmelodrama, the bill's opponents insisted that women were fragile creatures, the easy prey of libertines and seducers.
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Several films were in fact made of the most popular melodramas.
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Moreover, the puppet show presents an interesting and important contrast with the theatrical genre ofmelodrama.
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Finally, this move is also inspired by some recent accounts ofmelodramaby anthropologists.
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Yet as entertaining and quotable as all themelodramais, the dry physiological voice is in the end more radical.
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But he also, like the anti-poor law cartoonists of the 1830s and 1840s, responds to a tradition of radicalmelodrama.
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