peripeteia

英 [,perɪpɪ'taɪə; -'tiːə]

n. 情节的突然转变；剧情突变

英文词源

peripeteia (n.)

also peripetia, 1590s, from Greek peripeteia "a turn right about; a sudden change" (of fortune, in a tragedy), from peri- "around" (see peri-) + stem of piptein "to fall" (see symptom).

双语例句

1. A peripeteia swiftly turns a routine sequence of events into a story worth telling.

剧情的突变,将老套的情节迅速变成一个值得一说的故事.

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