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The drama part goes back to Greek and means “action” so that a melodrama when it appeared 200 years ago in English was a play with music.

因此200年以前英国出现的melodrama就是一种音乐舞台剧。

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But non-hip people wouldn’t have heard of it and so when it appeared the following year in the Saturday Evening Post it was couched in an explanatory tone.

但是没听过那类音乐的人也就没听过这个词，于是第二年它在《星期六晚邮报》上露面时，经过了一番阐释。

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