记忆方法
英语单词tragedy(悲剧)源自希腊语tragodia,由tragos(goat,山羊)+oide(song,歌)组成,字面意思就是“山羊之歌”。=“悲剧”与“山羊”到底有何关系呢?关于这一点,历来众说纷纭,莫衷一是,有一种说法是,悲剧源自古希腊的酒神节上表演的“羊人剧”(satyric drama)。在羊人剧中,演员身披羊皮,装扮成羊人,所以被称为“山羊之歌”。另一种说法是,在酒神节上歌手们为了竞争作为奖品的山羊而高唱悲歌。还有一种说法,在酒神节上歌手们围绕着献祭给酒神的山羊歌唱酒神的不幸。
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小知识
Tragedy is a noun that indicates disaster or bad fortune. It would be a tragedy to lose your job, but an even greater tragedy to fall ill while unemployed and without health care.
First recorded in the late 14th century, the noun tragedy originally referred to a play with an unhappy ending. About a century later it also came to mean an unhappy event or a disaster. The playwright George Bernard Shaw wittily observed, ““There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.” The comedian Mel Brooks defined tragedy as follows: “Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.”
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单词用法
同义词
misfortune / bad / shock / disaster / bitter / pile-up / luck / adversity / collision / flood / crack-up / calamity / mishap / fire / crash / comedown / setback / accident / blow / pill / peripeteia / miscarriage / reverse / hardship / earthquake / smash-up / mischance / shipwreck / wreck / catastrophe / natural / reversal / heartbreaker / God / act / of
同根词
词根:tragic
adj.tragic悲剧的;悲痛的,不幸的
tragical悲剧的;悲剧性的;悲惨的;不幸的
adv.tragically悲剧地;悲惨地
n.tragedian悲剧演员;悲剧作家
tragedienne悲剧女演员