Melodramatic

[melədrə'mætɪk] or [,mɛlədrə'mætɪk]

(adj.) having the excitement and emotional appeal of melodrama; 'a melodramatic account of two perilous days at sea' .

校对:帕蒂--From WordNet

(a.) Of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action.

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You can't stay here, so what's the use of being melodramatic? 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
It takes a long perspective and no very vivid acquaintance with revolution to be melodramatic about it. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
It puts melodramatic nonsense into the pilgrims' heads. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
Silence a la mort, replied Laurie, with a melodramatic flourish, as he went away. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
True it is that his soldiers, who, save for a few rare melodramatic encounters, saw nothing of him, idolized their Little Corporal. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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