核心畫面
You can picture tragedy as an ending that takes something away and cannot be undone: a life, a future, a person's best years. It is not just bad luck or sadness — it is loss with a shape to it, the kind that makes everyone go quiet. The same shape covers a real accident in the news and a play in which the hero walks step by step towards his own death.
可以想成一種「拿走了什麼、而且收不回來」的結局：一條人命、一個本來會有的未來、一個人最好的那些年。它不只是倒楣或難過…更多收起
可以想成一種「拿走了什麼、而且收不回來」的結局：一條人命、一個本來會有的未來、一個人最好的那些年。它不只是倒楣或難過，而是有形狀的失去——聽到的人會安靜下來的那一種。這個形狀同時罩得住新聞裡真實的意外，也罩得住舞台上那個一步步走向自己死亡的主角。原始詞典資料3 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。
tragedynoun/ˈtɹæd͡ʒ.ɪ.di/
- 1
A drama or similar work, in which the main character is brought to ruin or otherwise suffers the extreme consequences of some tragic flaw or weakness of character.
- 2
The genre of such works, and the art of producing them.
- 3
A disastrous event, especially one involving great loss of life or injury.
- “The story of this adoption is, of course, the pivot round which all the circumstances of the mysterious tragedy revolved. Mrs. Yule had an only son, namely, William, to whom she was passionately attached; but, like many a fond mother, she had the desire of mapping out that son's future entirely according to her own ideas.[…]”
- We saw a farmhouse burning down in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night. And we rolled right past that tragedy 'till we turned into some road house lights.
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。