形容词,意为"故作深沉却显得可笑的;从崇高突然跌入平庸或荒谬的"。常用来描述文学或言辞中试图表达深刻情感,却因过度渲染而适得其反,变得矫揉造作或令人发笑。
/bəˈθɛtɪk/
The movie's ending was so bathetic that the audience laughed instead of cried.
这部电影的结局太矫情做作了,观众非但没有哭,反而笑了。
His speech began with a powerful call for justice but descended into bathetic sentimentality when he compared his parking ticket to the struggles of political prisoners.
他的演讲一开始是对正义的有力呼唤,但当他把自己的停车罚单比作政治犯的遭遇时,便沦为了可笑的煽情。
源自名词 bathos,该词由英国诗人亚历山大·蒲柏(Alexander Pope)在1727年的讽刺文章《论 Bathos,或深沉之艺术》(Peri Bathous, or the Art of Sinking in Poetry)中推广使用。Bathos 来自希腊语 βάθος(bathós),意为"深度",蒲柏借此词讽刺那些试图追求崇高(pathos)却弄巧成拙、跌入荒谬的拙劣写作。Bathetic 作为形容词形式,仿照 pathetic(来自 pathos)的构词方式而成。