像戲一樣抓住目光
把舞台的效果搬到真實的事件上：一件事如果精彩到、或轉折大到讓人像看戲一樣移不開眼睛，英文就用這個字。這一支不涉及演戲，只借用那種效果。
exciting; striking · adjective · B2
Exciting or impressive in a way that grabs your attention, like a last-minute goal or amazing scenery.
精彩的／震撼的
核心畫面
Picture a stage: the lights, the big gesture, the moment the audience . Everything a play is built to do — grab the eye, turn things suddenly, make people watch — is what English lends to real life when it calls something dramatic.
可以想成：一個舞台——燈光打下來、動作放大、台下倒抽一口氣的那一刻。戲劇本來就是為了抓住目光、製造轉折而存在的；當英…更多收起
可以想成：一個舞台——燈光打下來、動作放大、台下倒抽一口氣的那一刻。戲劇本來就是為了抓住目光、製造轉折而存在的；當英文說現實中的某件事 dramatic，就是把舞台上那種效果借過來用。所以它可以形容變化之大、場面之精彩，也可以形容一個人的舉止有點在演。From the picture
Also in this word
theatrical · adjective · B2
Connected with acting, plays, or the theatre.
戲劇的
showy · adjective · B2
Done in a big, showy way on purpose, so that people will notice you.
誇張的／很有架式的
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
dramaticadj/dɹəˈmætɪk/
- 1
Of or relating to the drama.
- Monteverde found the conditions of dramatic music more favourable to his experiments than those of choral music, in which both voices and ears are at their highest sensibility to discord.
- The Orestea is in effect one great single tragedy in three separate parts, each with its own dramatic purpose, yet harmonized by a common inspiration—three great acts of a drama, simple but complex; the whole, as its component members, showing unity of action in rise, crisis, and fall, and progressing in a series of like orderly stages toward a definite dramatic goal.
- 2
Striking in appearance or effect.
- a dramatic view of the Alps
- Each year remarkable advances in prenatal medicine bring ever more dramatic confirmation of what common sense told us all along-that the child in the womb is simply what each of us once was: a very young, very small, dependent, vulnerable member of the human family.
- 3
Having a powerful, expressive singing voice.
- 4
informalTending to exaggerate in order to get attention.
- You're not bleeding out; the knife barely scratched your skin. Stop being so dramatic!
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。