morality play

英音[ məˈræləti pleɪ ] 美音[ məˈræləti pleɪ ]
以传达道德教诲。
常用释义
道德剧:一种中世纪英国的戏剧形式,通过讲述具有象征意义的角色之间的冲突,以传达道德教诲。

例句

1·This morality play was being produced at the Fairview County Courthouse.

这出道德剧由美景镇法院创作。

2·They look like figures representing gluttony in a medieval morality play.

它们看上去象中世纪道德剧中代表暴饮的形象。

3·Entertainment performed between the ACTS of a medieval mystery or morality play.

幕间幽默短剧:在中世纪神秘剧或道德剧各幕之间表演的滑稽短剧。

4·It's like watching a medieval morality play, with the forces of Good and Evil battling for power.

这就像看中世纪的道德剧,善与恶的力量为权力而战。

5·But maybe this is an opportunity to reiterate a point I try to make now and then: economics is not a morality play.

也许正好借此机会重申一下我时常想要说的一个观点:经济学不是唱德育戏。

6·Keynes's genius - a very English one - was to insist we should approach an economic system not as a morality play but as a technical challenge.

凯恩斯的天才——一种非常英式的天才——在于强调,我们不能把经济体系当成一出道德剧来对待,而是应该把它当成一种技术挑战。

7·Only those who believe the economy is a morality play, in which those they deem wicked should suffer punishment, would enjoy that painful result.

只有那些相信经济是一幕道德剧、而他们视为邪恶的人应该受到惩罚的人,才会喜欢那种痛苦的结果。

8·And even as they are, to some extent, enacting a morality play, the actors also seem like real, vulnerable people forced into impossible choices.

即使片中的人物从某种意义上来说在上演一出道德剧,他们怎么看怎么像真实而又脆弱的人们逼不得已只能做出泯灭良心的选择。

9·A simple morality play starring villains and victims always draws a bigger, more indignant crowd than the more involved narrative of structural inequality.

在一个简单的道德剧中,主演恶棍和受害者总是有更大的吸引力,而一般性参与的叙述者总是处于一种结构性的不平等。

10·In most people's view, this recession was caused by the speculative greed of bankers - an entirely different kind of downturn that fits the plot of a morality play.

而在大多数人看来,这场衰退是由银行家投机性的贪婪所致——这种全然不同的衰退非常符合道德剧的情节。