bathos

bathos
[ˈbeɪθɒs]
noun
  1. [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
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bathetic
[bəˈθɛtɪk]
adjective
语源
  1. 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
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