denouement: [18] A denouement is literally an ‘untying of a knot’. It was borrowed from French (its first recorded use in English is by Lord Chesterfield in one of his famous letters to his son (1752)), where it was a derivative of dénouer ‘undo’. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix dé- ‘un-’ and nouer ‘tie’, which came ultimately from Latin nōdus ‘knot’ (source of English newel, node, nodule, and noose). => newel, node, nodule, noose
denouement (n.)
1752, from French dénouement "an untying" (of plot), from dénouer "untie" (Old French desnouer) from des- "un-, out" (see dis-) + nouer "to tie, knot," from Latin nodus "a knot," from PIE *ned- "to bind, tie" (see net (n.)).
例文
1. Her novel subverts the conventions of linear narrative.It has no neat chronology and no tidy denouement .
彼女の小説は線形叙事の伝統を覆し、明確な時間的手がかりもなく、簡単で明瞭な結末もない。
2.The book 's sentimental denouement is pure Hollywood.
この本の扇情的な結末は純粋にハリウッド的だ。
3.Cowperwood was in no way pleased by this rough denouement .
このような草で終わると、コパ?ウーは決して喜ぶことはありません。
4.In a surprising denouement ，she becomes a nun.
結末は意外にもシスターになった。
5.But in real life young men who hoped for this denouement were apt to be disappointed.