(in writing or speech )写作或演讲 a sudden change, that is not always intended, from a serious subject or feeling to something that is silly or not important 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
Word Originmid 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.