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the end of astory, in which everything isexplained, or the endresultof asituation (故事的)结局,结果SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesCinema & theatre: parts of plays, shows & films - act
- beat
- blooper reel
- byplay
- coup de théâtre
- curtain call
- dream sequence
- exeunt
- exit
- finale
- flashback
- fourth wall
- interval
- MacGuffin
- plot hole
- scene
- set piece
- showstopper
- stage direction
- wrap party
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- If they would, however, many could escape from this fatal denouement which suddenly terminates their life at an age when ordinary life is only beginning.
- It was all so true and universal, the characters so well drawn, the denouement so happy!
- So sudden and astounding was this denouement that Louise did not even scream.
- We could not stay for the denouement, as we had a nervous old lady with us, who firmly declined to witness any such hair-raising spectacle.
denouement| American Dictionaryliteraturethefinalpartof aworkofliterature, after theclimax(= the mostimportantorexcitingpart) (Definition ofdenouementfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)Examplesofdenouementdenouement Even the climactic moments of the evening substitute teasing collections of imagery and text for a tidy conclusion anddenouement.From theCambridge English Corpus Thedenouementof acceptance is not predicated upon the male object's 'explanations' (presumably, as she does not enumerate them), but upon self-examination.From theCambridge English Corpus Many historians have taken it as the final chord in the symphony of colonialism, thedenouementof the nationalist movement, the end of an era.From theCambridge English Corpus To conservatives thisdenouementhad all the marks of a cover-up.From theCambridge English Corpus Popular melodramas, by definition, play off of viewers' expectations and innate hunches about plot and character development, problem, anddenouement.From theCambridge English Corpus The elimination of the revolutionary 'denouement' again anticipated political realities, this time with the circumstances reversed.From theCambridge English Corpus Yet verwickeln implies complication and tumultuous complexity, as one might find in the misunderstandings and missteps of a comedy before the finaldenouement.From theCambridge English Corpus The hundreds of lines leading to thisdenouementfollowed in due course.From theCambridge English Corpus Such an outcome would essentially represent the end of history for currency independence, and thedenouementof the one-country-onecurrency standard.From theCambridge English Corpus This saddenouementhad, of course, been made more likely by the prevailing atmosphere of intellectual dissension to which the rival journals had so richly contributed.From theCambridge English Corpus In most instances, the drama revolved around the hero's dilemma in resolving these opposing forces, and thedenouementcelebrated his triumphant reconciliation of duty and love.From theCambridge English Corpus Might this be an allusion to thedenouementof some real-life love intrigue?From theCambridge English Corpus They never became a ghetto party cut off from power, in constant wait for thedenouementof a political drama in which they played no role.From theCambridge English Corpus Sometimes it merely postponed the fatefuldenouement.From theCambridge English Corpus I can still recall the collective gasp of horror, as well as the outbursts of laughter, that the story'sdenouementelicited from a captivated company of listeners.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. #https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/denouement## |