denouement

英 [deɪnuː'mɒŋ] 美

GRE畅通词汇

复数: denouements;

denouement 结局，收场

de-, 不，非，使相反。-noue, 结，词源同net. 即解开结，用于剧情结局收场。

2. the final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work

denouement: denouement: [18] A denouement is literally an ‘untying of a knot’. It was borrowed from French (its first recorded use in English is by Lord Chesterfield in one of his famous letters to his son (1752)), where it was a derivative of dénouer ‘undo’. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix dé- ‘un-’ and nouer ‘tie’, which came ultimately from Latin nōdus ‘knot’ (source of English newel, node, nodule, and noose).
=> newel, node, nodule, noose
denouement (n.): 1752, from French dénouement "an untying" (of plot), from dénouer "untie" (Old French desnouer) from des- "un-, out" (see dis-) + nouer "to tie, knot," from Latin nodus "a knot," from PIE *ned- "to bind, tie" (see net (n.)).

Cowperwood was in no way pleased by this rough denouement.: 这样草草收场,柯帕乌绝不会高兴的.

But in real life young men who hoped for this denouement were apt to be disappointed.: 但是在现实生活中,满心期望这种结局的年轻人,往往会大失所望.

Yet there are many dramatists who , after a good Complication, fail in the Denouement.: 现在, 在是否具有相同的结和解而不是情节的基础上,说这出悲剧与那出悲剧相同是可能的.

Such an irregular denouement piques heated discussions among critics and readers as well.: 这一詹姆斯式弃绝行为引起了读者和评论界的广泛探讨.

But in real life young men who hoped for this denouement apt to be disappointed.: 但是在现实生活里,梦想这种结局的年轻小伙子多半会以失望告终.

Her novel subverts the conventions of linear narrative. It has no neat chronology and no tidy denouement.: 她的小说颠覆了线性叙事的传统，没有清晰的时间线索，也没有简单明了的结局。