bathos

希腊语，词源同base, 低，底。abyss, 深渊。一种艺术修辞手法，指突然从最高降到最低。

bathos

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.

1. Spring was the real apex of the year; summer was bathos.

春天是一年四季中真正的顶点, 而夏天是高潮后的低潮.

2. He'll never be able to emerge from his bathos of coarseness and ignorance.

他永远也不能从他那粗野无知中解脱出来.

3. Worth's war was one that went from high excitement to moments of bathos.

沃思经历了战争的最兴奋时期,直到战争的最后时刻.