Unlike melodrama, they usually had sad or tragic endings.

和音乐剧不同的是 它们的结局通常是悲伤的或者说是悲剧。

I wasn't sure of anything, except that I was living inside some melodrama.

我什么都不确定 除了我生活在某种情节剧里。

Grand Guignol antecedent is melodrama with its anti-literary visually forward focus on sensation and surprise.

“恐怖剧”的祖先是音乐剧 其反文学的视觉前沿专注于感觉和惊喜。

Imagine the emotional pitch of a Victorian melodrama, add music, and you have the general idea.

想象一下，维多利亚时代的情节剧的情感基调，加上配乐，你就有了大致的概念。

Acting in melodrama was exaggerated, designed to appeal to the emotions.

音乐剧的表演很夸张 是为了迎合情感而设计的。

But also, is it melodrama supposed to end happily?

还有 这部音乐剧的结局是好的吗？

It was a very necessary corrective to all of those decades of melodramas minstrel and blackface.

是对几十年的情节剧、吟游诗人和黑脸的一个非常必要的纠正。

Come on, there’s no need for all this melodrama.

【melodrama】好了，没必要闹成这种样子。

That melodrama may be dismissed as rubbish.

那部情节剧可能会被视为垃圾而被驳回。

There were showboats that put on shows and melodramas before movies.

在电影放映之前， 有放映船上演表演和情节剧。

The effect is a parody of the villain in an old-fashioned melodrama.

效果是对老式情节剧中恶棍的模仿。

What they want is melodrama. It's not highbrow.

而音乐剧正好满足了他们 所以音乐剧不是给知识分子看的。

This memorable melodrama was reported by all of the mass media.

这值得纪念的轰动的事件被所有的大众传播媒体报道了。

Surbeck, who is currently at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, got DNA samples from the players in this melodrama.

目前在马克斯·普朗克进化人类学研究所工作的瑟贝克，从这部传奇剧的主角身上提取了DNA。

This is supposed to be the story about star-crossed lovers, not a trashy melodrama.

这应该是一个关于不幸恋人的故事，而不是一部无聊的情节剧。

Sometimes that good time includes dogs. That's right. There is a whole sub-genre of dog melodrama.

有的时候这种美好的时光也包括狗狗在内 没错 音乐剧有一整个分支是用来讲狗的。

Yep, today is all about melodrama, the form that body-slammed 19th century theater and still dominates entertainment culture today.

没错 今天我们要讲的是“音乐剧” 这种戏剧在19世纪风靡一时 至今仍是娱乐文化的主导。

What kick-starts melodrama? Well, cities are getting bigger faster, which creates a newly urbanized working class.

是什么促使了音乐剧的出现？是的 随着城市的不断扩张 一个新的城市化的工人阶级脱颖而出。

Regardless, melodrama is an incredibly successful and well attended form then and now.

不管怎么说 音乐剧在当时以及现在都非常受欢迎。

The easiest way to make these institutions the villains of a melodrama was to make The Maid its heroine.

让这些机构成为情节剧反派的最简单方法就是让女仆成为女主角。