anticlimax

anticlimax[,ænti'klaimæks]

• n.
  • 【修辞学】突降法(指说话或写作中从有重大意义的精彩内容突然转入平淡或荒谬的内容)
  • (在重要性、兴趣、品质等方面)突降，突减；虎头蛇尾；(在精彩的高潮之后)苍白无力(或令人扫兴)的结尾；(尊严、权威、命运等的)突然衰败

• acervulus
• protophilic
• rain crust
• vagin-
• stop on a dime
• frigidaires
• dye lasers
• weariful
• overlook
• one-liners
• Semlikl forest virus
• sagebrushes
• along here
• peculiar institution
• vins
• destructibility
• reference libraries
• run free
• nonferrous metal
• ion cloud
• proof load
• follow-through
• paludism
• enzymic
• phase space
• sweetness and light
• materiels
• precipitated
• draftier
• jiujitsu
• discommended
• harmlessly
• trifecta
• a hostage to fortune
• eyephone
• inefficient
• sacrifice someone/thing on/at the altar of
• subpriors
• drossing
• parameterize
• fin rot
• Pirandello, Luigi
• self-feeds
• self-awareness
• cha-cha
• have a bone to pick with sb
• Cormack, Allan Macleod
• no half a bad fellow
• poorwill
• dead end
• pseudorandom numbers
• megaflop
• phebes
• pinups
• bear out
• amphoral
• even sth↔out
• into arrears
• chitchatter
• tabnabs
• Z-bend
• transposable
• intradoses
• capableness
• a possessory action
• put one's (或 someone's) nose to the grindstone
• wrinkle city
• be that as it may
• put sth to (good) use
• maid of all work
• gallium arsenide semiconductor
• piezoelectric semiconductor
• green sheet
• video walkman
• gentle craft
• amoebae
• to heavens
• ornithologically
• reap what one has sown
• be a wake-up
• deoxygenization
• Vorlage
• Clevelander
• tetracosactrin
• legal reserves
• up （或right up） one's street（或〈北美〉alley）
• nfls
• hydroxy-
• all-Canadian
• jarovizing
• moneymaker
• control zone
• skatoles
• semioccasional
• tetraparental
• weakfishes
• slough up
• barbecue maneuver
• traffic snarl
• put someone upon the lookout