Today's key word is Dramatize v.使戏剧化Dramatize means: put into dramatic form, or represent something in a dramatic manner.

例句

The film attempts neither to dramatize nor sermonize.

这部电影既不企图使用戏剧化的手法也不企图进行说教。

延伸

One of the most famous works by Shakespeare is the tragedy of Macbeth. Macbeth is considered one of Shakespeare’s darkest and most powerful works. Set in Scotland, the play dramatizes the damaging psychological and political effects produced when evil is chosen as a way to fulfill the ambition for power.

Here is a clip from Roman Polanski’s 1971 film titled Macbeth. (soundbite/ Macbeth)

LADY MACBETH: Who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? The Thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now? What, will these hands neer be clean? No more o' that, my lord, no more o' that. You mar all with this starting.

DOCTOR: Go to, go to; you have known what you should not.

GENTLEWOMAN: She has spoke what she should not, I am sure of that. Heaven knows what she has known.

LADY MACBETH: Here's the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.