n. 情节剧;音乐剧;耸人听闻的事件,闹剧
melodrama 情节剧,通俗剧
来自法语melodrame,歌舞剧,来自希腊语melos,歌,词源同melody,韵律,旋律,drama,戏剧。后引申词义浪漫爱情歌舞剧,夸张的爱情剧,情节剧,通俗剧等。
The melodramatist's task is to get his characters labelled good & wicked in his audience's minds, & to provide striking situations that shall provoke & relieve anxieties on behalf of poetic justice. [Fowler]