melo·dra·ma /ˈmɛləˌdrɑmə, ˌdræ-/
音樂劇,通俗劇,戲劇似的事件
Mel·o·dra·ma n. Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks; as, the melodrama in the gravedigging scene of Beethoven's “Fidelio”.
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melodrama
n : an extravagant comedy in which action is more salient than
characterization