[mass noun](especially in a literary work) an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous (尤指文学作品中的)突降法
派生 bathetic [bəˈθɛtɪk] adjective 语源
mid 17th cent. (first recorded in the Greek sense): from Greek, literally depth'. The current sense was introduced by Alexander Pope in the early 18th cent