单词 | epilogue |
释义 | ep·i·logue I. also ep·i·log 1. < 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 good play needs no epilogue yet … good plays prove the better by the help of good epilogues — Shakespeare > — compare prologue (2) < 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 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. a. < 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. II. |
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