4EXCITEDintended to be impressive, so that people notice 引人注目的,给人深刻印象的
She needed a stunning dress to help her make a dramatic entrance.
她需要一件能让她在登场时大出风头的惊艳礼服。
Tristan threw up his hands in a dramatic gesture.
特里斯坦以戏剧性的姿势把双手向上一甩。
5 —dramatically/-kli/ adv
Output has increased dramatically.
产量已大幅度提高。
nCOLLOCATIONS
nouns
a dramatic change
The Internet has brought dramatic changes to the way we work.
a dramatic increase/rise
There has been a dramatic rise in fuel costs.
a dramatic fall/drop/decline
Between these years there was a dramatic fall in youth employment.
a dramatic effect/impact
An accident can have a dramatic effect on your family’s finances.
a dramatic improvement
There has been a dramatic improvement in the standard of students’ work.
a dramatic shift (=change in the way people think or do something)
This announcement signalled a dramatic shift in the government’s policy.
a dramatic result
Cameras on the streets have produced dramatic results in reducing crime.
a dramatic difference
The programs made a dramatic difference to the lives of millions of people.
Examples from the Corpus
dramatic• With this dramatic and disorienting shift in the way corporationsstructure themselves comes a change in business Ianguage.• The movie starts with a dramatic car chase across the desert.• What they hadn't bargained for was a sudden and dramatic change in the weather.• the dramatic changes that took place in EasternEurope• Rosa made a dramaticentrance into the room, wearing a tiny red dress.• Rumpole produced the evidence with a dramaticflourish.• She raised her hands in a dramaticgesture of despair.• The report shows that there have been dramaticimprovements in some areas in the past 10 years.• There has been a dramatic increase in homelessness over the past few years.• Stop being so dramatic. It's embarrassing.• There are sudden, dramaticleaps in small children's learning, interspersed with long fallow periods when nothing seems to happen.• There may be other, less dramaticpressures.• Firemen carried out a dramaticrescue of the boy trapped in the burning house.• "Voice of the Heart" is a dramatic story of two women that sweeps from New York to Europe and back again.• The rivers give some of the most dramatictestimony to the lack of rain and snow.• Way too contrived and gooey for most grown-ups, it might well delightyoungsters, especially its dramaticunderwatersequences.• a collection of Shakespeare's dramatic works
dramatic effect/results• But geneticcounseling can have more dramatic results.• He exploited his age, like all his other attributes, to great dramatic effect.• In the Third World, however, the application of a little force or a little money could have dramatic results.• This is sometimes done at discotheques, and it produces some dramatic effects.• By contrast, more dramatic effects are found in people treated with anti-AIDS drugs that attack the virus directly.• This schemelaunchedenterprises with dramatic results, instead of doling out aid to passiveclients.• You might imagine that the findings would have had a dramatic effect on how doctors evaluatedremedies, new and old.• This has a dramatic effect on the information managementstrategy of the organisation.
dramatic scenery• It is an island of contrasts with superbclimate and dramatic scenery.• The place has always attractedwriters and artists and lovers of strange and dramatic scenery.• It has good beaches, dramatic scenery and has even been given the royalnod.• For the ocean may provide dramatic scenery but it does not, in itself, belong centre-stage.
dramatic gesture• He knew, says Menotti a little wryly, that it was time for a dramatic gesture.• In a dramatic gesture, Diana pulled out of attending after the split was announced.• It seemed -the least he could do - to deny himself the dramatic gesture, to humiliate himself.
VERBS | ADVERBVERBS➤be, sound有戲劇性;聽起來驚人ADVERB➤extremely, fairly, very, etc.極其/相當/非常激動人心▸➤highly, intensely具有高度戲劇性;極具戲劇性➤especially, particularly特別/尤其富有戲劇性➤overly過分誇張◇I don't want to sound overly dramatic, but it changed my life.我不想聽起來太誇張,但它的確改變了我的人生。➤suitably適度地激昂◇Her entrance was accompanied by suitably dramatic music.她進場時伴有激昂而恰到好處的音樂。