bathos
noun /ˈbeɪθɒs/
/ˈbeɪθɑːs/
[uncountable] (formal)- (in writing or speech
写作或演讲 突降（严肃的内容突然变得荒谬，常非出自本意） - a serious play with moments of comic bathos
一部严肃的戏剧，有滑稽的洗澡瞬间
词源mid 17th cent. (first recorded in the Greek sense): from Greek, literally ‘depth’. The current sense was introduced by Alexander Pope in the early 18th cent. - a serious play with moments of comic bathos