bathos: [18] Bathos, the descent from the sublime to the commonplace, means etymologically ‘depth’. It represents Greek báthos, a derivative of the adjective bathús ‘deep’ (which has also given English such technical terms as bathyal ‘of the deep sea’, bathymetry, bathyscaphe, and bathysphere). The use of the word in English seems to have been initiated by the poet Alexander Pope (1688–1744), in his Bathos.
bathos (n.)
"anticlimax, a descent from the sublime to the ridiculous," 1727, from Greek bathos "depth," related to bathys "deep" (see benthos). Introduced by Pope.
实用例句
1. Spring was the real apex of the year; summer was bathos.
春天是一年四季中真正的顶点, 而夏天是高潮后的低潮.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
2. He'll never be able to emerge from his bathos of coarseness and ignorance.
他永远也不能从他那粗野无知中解脱出来.
来自辞典例句
3. Worth's war was one that went from high excitement to moments of bathos.
