| 单词 | tragedy |
| 释义 | tragedy (once / 192 pages) n Tragedy is a noun that indicates disaster or bad fortune. It would be a tragedy to lose your job, but an even greater tragedy to fall ill while unemployed and without health care. First recorded in the late 14th century, the noun tragedy originally referred to a play with an unhappy ending. About a century later it also came to mean an unhappy event or a disaster. The playwright George Bernard Shaw wittily observed, "“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.” The comedian Mel Brooks defined tragedy as follows: "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die." WORD FAMILYtragedy: tragedies, tragical+/tragic: tragedy, tragically, tragicly/tragical: tragicalest USAGE EXAMPLESWe are physicians who teach tropical medicine in East Africa each year, where we witness the tragedy of illnesses and deaths from vaccine-preventable diseases. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) “Every day there is tragedy, and every day we play music,” said guitar player Adel Sabawi, who is from Damascus. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) As mundanity mingles with tragedy, we confront the inevitable Popian letdown: Do we care enough? The New Yorker(Dec 31, 2016) 1n an event resulting in great loss and misfortune Syn|Hypo|Hyper calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster act of God, force majeure, inevitable accident, unavoidable casualty, vis major a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events apocalypsea cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of evil faminea severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death kiss of deathsomething that is ruinous meltdowna disaster comparable to a nuclear meltdown plagueany large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God) visitationany disaster or catastrophe tidal wavean unusual (and often destructive) rise of water along the seashore caused by a storm or a combination of wind and high tide tsunamia cataclysm resulting from a destructive sea wave caused by an earthquake or volcanic eruption the Great Calamity, the Great Hunger, the Great Starvation, the Irish Faminea famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight; between 1846 and 1851 a million people starved to death and 1.6 million emigrated (most to America) bad luck, misfortune unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event 2n drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance; excites terror or pity Ant|Hypo|Hyper comedy light and humorous drama with a happy ending tragicomedy a dramatic composition involving elements of both tragedy and comedy usually with the tragic predominating drama the literary genre of works intended for the theater |
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