It is usually a predictable, melodramatic story of boy-meets-girl and overcomes all odds to be together.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

It's a late Victorian image of an archaic singer rendered in the melodramatic manner of Pre-Raphaelite art and thoroughly removed from the aesthetic values of modernism, such as naturalism, formal clarity, emotional restraint and so on.

这是维多利亚时代晚期古代吟唱诗人的肖像,用戏剧化的前拉斐尔派,风格表现，完全摒弃了,现代主义的审美观，比如自然主义，形式明确，感情自制等等。

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