As an AP photographer, Worth covered the events leading up to World War II. Worth's war was one that went from high excitement to moments of bathos. 作为美联社的摄影记者,沃思报道过导致第二次世界大战的事件。沃思经历了战争的最兴奋时期,直到战争的最后时刻。
bathos
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triteness or triviality of style
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insincere pathos
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a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one
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Bathos \Ba"thos\ (b[=a]"th[o^]s), n. [Gr. ba`qos depth, fr. baqy`s deep.] (Rhet.) A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.
"The public could condone murder as retribution for adultery," writes Mr. Brandt, "but it could not condone a murderer's willingness to forgive." With pathos and bathos, the couple tried to mend their pitiful lives.
So often a brilliant beginning had crashed into bathos by line four.