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.)).
实用例句
1. Her novel subverts the conventions of linear narrative. It has no neat chronology and no tidy denouement.
她的小说颠覆了线性叙事的传统，没有清晰的时间线索，也没有简单明了的结局。来自柯林斯例句
2. The book's sentimental denouement is pure Hollywood.
该书的煽情结局纯粹是好莱坞式的。来自辞典例句
3. Cowperwood was in no way pleased by this rough denouement.
这样草草收场,柯帕乌绝不会高兴的.来自辞典例句
4. In a surprising denouement, she becomes a nun.
结局出人意表, 她当修女了.来自辞典例句
5. But in real life young men who hoped for this denouement were apt to be disappointed.
