denouement: [18] A denouement is literally an ‘untying of a knot’. It was borrowed from French (its first recorded use in English is by Lord Chesterfield in one of his famous letters to his son (1752)), where it was a derivative of dénouer ‘undo’. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix dé- ‘un-’ and nouer ‘tie’, which came ultimately from Latin nōdus ‘knot’ (source of English newel, node, nodule, and noose). => newel, node, nodule, noose
denouement (n.)
1752, from French dénouement "an untying" (of plot), from dénouer "untie" (Old French desnouer) from des- "un-, out" (see dis-) + nouer "to tie, knot," from Latin nodus "a knot," from PIE *ned- "to bind, tie" (see net (n.)).
雙語例句
1. Her novel subverts the conventions of linear narrative. It has no neat chronology and no tidy denouement.
她的小說顛覆了線性敘事的傳統，沒有清晰的時間線索，也沒有簡單明了的結局。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The book's sentimental denouement is pure Hollywood.
該書的煽情結局純粹是好萊塢式的。
來自辭典例句
3. Cowperwood was in no way pleased by this rough denouement.
這樣草草收場,柯帕烏絕不會高興的.
來自辭典例句
4. In a surprising denouement, she becomes a nun.
結局出人意表, 她當修女了.
來自辭典例句
5. But in real life young men who hoped for this denouement were apt to be disappointed.