Tragedy

(noun.) drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance; excites terror or pity.

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• He thought no more of the matter until he heard in the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Mr. Wopsle, as the ill-requited uncle of the evening's tragedy, fell to meditating aloud in his garden at Camberwell. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Davoust and Massena, who wrought in many a battle tragedy, are here, and so also is Rachel, of equal renown in mimic tragedy on the stage. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It was midday when we found ourselves at the scene of the tragedy, and, under my companion's guidance, we made our way at once to Hudson Street. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• I feel as if I could be anything or everything; as if I could rant and storm, or sigh or cut capers, in any tragedy or comedy in the English language. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Like drama which compresses the tragedy of a lifetime into a unity of time, place, and action, history foreshortens an epoch into an episode. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• In the larger manufacturing towns the same tragedy was acted on a smaller, yet more disastrous scale. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I wish you good morning, sir--and she bowed me out of the room like a tragedy Queen, said the lawyer who told the story. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I can assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which followed. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• William, Justine, and Clerval, had died through my infernal machinations; And whose death, cried I, is to finish the tragedy? 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• I warned the inmates of the house, so as to avoid a second tragedy, and we went down, with the happiest results. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• He had actually arrived at twelve o'clock, and appeared to be overwhelmed by the unexpected tragedy. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The traces of the tragedy had been removed, but the furniture within the little room still stood as it had been on the night of the crime. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• A blinding gust of smoke blotted out the tragedy within that fearsome cell--a shriek rang out, a single shriek, as the dagger fell. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• When Thrasymachus has been silenced, the two principal respondents, Glaucon and Adeimantus, appear on the scene: here, as in Greek tragedy (cp. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Tragedies deep and dire were the chief favourites. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Tragedies and cravats, poetry and pickles, garden seeds and long letters, music and gingerbread, rubbers, invitations, scoldings, and puppies. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• That retreat is one of the great tragedies of history. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• We were still at Windsor; our renewed hopes medicined the anguish we had suffered from the late tragedies. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• After dinner, we went to witness Talma's performance in one of Racine's tragedies, Brougham being a very great admirer of French dramatic poetry. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Let us have no ranting tragedies. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.

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