denouement

英 [de?nu?'m??] 美

GRE暢通詞匯

復(fù)數(shù):?denouements;

denouement 結(jié)局，收場

de-, 不，非，使相反。-noue, 結(jié)，詞源同net. 即解開結(jié)，用于劇情結(jié)局收場。

denouement: denouement: [18] A denouement is literally an ‘untying of a knot’. It was borrowed from French (its first recorded use in English is by Lord Chesterfield in one of his famous letters to his son (1752)), where it was a derivative of dénouer ‘undo’. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix dé- ‘un-’ and nouer ‘tie’, which came ultimately from Latin nōdus ‘knot’ (source of English newel, node, nodule, and noose).
=> newel, node, nodule, noose
denouement (n.): 1752, from French dénouement "an untying" (of plot), from dénouer "untie" (Old French desnouer) from des- "un-, out" (see dis-) + nouer "to tie, knot," from Latin nodus "a knot," from PIE *ned- "to bind, tie" (see net (n.)).

1. Her novel subverts the conventions of linear narrative. It has no neat chronology and no tidy denouement.: 她的小說顛覆了線性敘事的傳統(tǒng)，沒有清晰的時間線索，也沒有簡單明了的結(jié)局。

2. The book's sentimental denouement is pure Hollywood.: 該書的煽情結(jié)局純粹是好萊塢式的。

3. Cowperwood was in no way pleased by this rough denouement.: 這樣草草收場,柯帕烏絕不會高興的.

4. In a surprising denouement, she becomes a nun.: 結(jié)局出人意表, 她當(dāng)修女了.

5. But in real life young men who hoped for this denouement were apt to be disappointed.: 但是在現(xiàn)實生活中,滿心期望這種結(jié)局的年輕人,往往會大失所望.