Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.
— Pico Iyer  ·  Humor

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comedy ['kɑmədi] 词频3
n. 喜剧;喜剧性;喜剧体裁;有趣的事情;
💡 com宴会+edy表名词→像宴会一样热闹→喜剧
"He didn't appreciate the comedy of the situation."
他未领略到这种局面的滑稽可笑之处。
近义：play, farce, playacting 反义：holocaust, misfortune, calamity, catastrophe, debacle, disaster
tragedy ['trædʒədi] 词频2
n. 悲剧，惨剧;悲剧文学;悲剧理论，悲剧表演艺术;悲剧式作品;
💡 trag 表”山羊”,后引申为”悲剧”(最开始的悲剧是撒克逊人的山羊剧)##ode, ody 【希腊传入拉丁】表”歌,诗”#词根助记：trag(=山羊)+edy=山羊之歌(古代羊人剧是悲剧的前身)=悲剧
"a leaning towards comedy rather than tragedy"
偏爱喜剧而不是悲剧
近义：holocaust, misfortune, calamity, catastrophe, debacle, disaster 反义：joy, bliss, blithe, felicity, godspeed, happiness
deferred
a. 推迟的, 迟延的\\n[计] 递延的
近义：postponed

🏷 更多「Humor」名言

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— Dick Clark
"Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people."
— Robert Benchley
"All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl."
— Charlie Chaplin
"That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you."
— A. Whitney Brown
"Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain."
— Edward De Bono
"A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella."
— Unknown
"Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it."
— Salma Hayek
"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."
— Horace Walpole
"Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them."
— Lewis Mumford
"Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will."
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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