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A story, especially in theater, movies, or TV, filled with very big, emotions — characters cry a lot and react very strongly, and the plot usually has clear "good" people and "bad" people. It can also describe real-life behavior that reacts far too dramatically for the situation, as in "stop being so melodramatic" — stop .
core核心畫面
組成melo- (from Greek "melos", song or music) + drama (a play, from Greek "dran", to do or act) — a melodrama originally meant a play with music added for emotional effect.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
melodramanoun/ˈmɛləˌdɹɑːmə/
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archaicA kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes.
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A drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic.
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A passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks.
- The grave-digging scene in Beethoven's “Fidelio” has much melodrama.
- Rudolf was the bold, bad Baron of traditional melodrama. Irene was young, as pretty as a picture, fresh from a music academy in England. He was the scion of an ancient noble family; she an orphan without money or friends.
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Any situation or action which is blown out of proportion.
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