1. (激動(dòng)人心的事情之后)令人失望的情況,令人掃興的事件 You can describe something as an anticlimax if it disappoints you because it happens after something that was very exciting, or because it is not as exciting as you expected.
e.g. Barry's speech followed Dirk Bogarde's appearance, and was an inevitable anticlimax... 巴里緊隨德克·博加德之后發(fā)表了演講,不出所料,演講頓時(shí)變得索然無(wú)味。 e.g. It was sad that his international career should end in such anticlimax. 令人悲哀的是,他的國際職業(yè)生涯竟如此慘淡收場(chǎng)。
anticlimax英英釋義
noun
1. a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one