| 单词 | epilogue |
| 释义 | epilogue (once / 4214 pages) n If you like to read the end of a book first, then maybe the epilogue is for you. The epilogue is a short piece that wraps up the end of a story. The noun epilogue can also refer to the short speech at the end of a play that one of the characters speaks directly to the audience. In Shakespeare's play The Tempest, the epilogue is a 20-line monologue spoken by Prospero. Epilogue comes from the Greek word epilogus meaning the conclusion of a speech. WORD FAMILYepilogue: epilogues USAGE EXAMPLESTrump offers his followers the fascist bargain that Walter Benjamin described in the epilogue to The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Slate(Nov 22, 2016) There are some excellent action sequences and a moving epilogue. Los Angeles Times(Nov 21, 2016) Ultimately, however, Massa's three seasons at Williams will stand as the epilogue to his career, just as the three at Sauber were the foreword. BBC(Nov 20, 2016) 1n a short speech (often in verse) addressed directly to the audience by an actor at the end of a play Syn|Hyper epilog close, closing, conclusion, end, ending the last section of a communication 2n a short passage added at the end of a literary work the epilogue told what eventually happened to the main characters Syn|Hyper epilog close, closing, conclusion, end, ending the last section of a communication |
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