词族 · peripeteia
词形变化
英语词源
- peripeteia (n.)
- also peripetia, 1590s, from Greek peripeteia "a turn right about; a sudden change" (of fortune, in a tragedy), from peri- "around" (see peri-) + stem of piptein "to fall" (see symptom).
权威例句
- 1. A peripeteia swiftly turns a routine sequence of events into a story worth telling.
- 剧情的突变,将老套的情节迅速变成一个值得一说的故事.