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单词 epilogue
释义 ep·i·logue
I. noun
also ep·i·log \ˈepəˌlȯg also -pēˌ- or -pi- or -läg\
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English epiloge, from Middle French epilogue, from Latin epilogus, from Greek epilogos, from epilegein to say in addition, from epi- + legein to speak, gather — more at legend
1. : the final part that serves typically to round out or complete the design of a nondramatic literary work : conclusion
 < only in prefaces, epilogues and topical interjections … did they achieve ease and force — Boris Ford >
— called also afterword; compare foreword, preface
2.
 a.
  (1) : a speech often in verse addressed to the audience by one or more of the actors at the end of a play
   < a good play needs no epilogue yet … good plays prove the better by the help of good epilogues — Shakespeare >
   — compare prologue
  (2) : the actor speaking such an epilogue
   < it is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue but it is no more unhandsome than to see the lord the prologue — Shakespeare >
 b. : the final scene of a play whose main action is set within a framework
  < the epilogue reassembles the characters of the prologue, their experience enriched by the insight that the main body of the plot has given them — F.H.O'Hara & Margueritte Bro >
3. : something felt to resemble an epilogue: as
 a. : an incident or series of events that completes, rounds out, or gives point to a previous incident or series of events
  < the story can be regarded either as an epilogue to the history of Roman Britain or as a prologue to the history of Saxon England — F.M.Stenton >
 b. : the concluding section of a musical composition : coda
II. transitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
: to supply with an epilogue
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