| 释义 |
‖ raté, a. and n.|rate|
[Fr.]
A. adj. Ineffective, miscarried; of a person, consistently unsuccessful.
B. n. A person who has failed in his vocation.
1905R. Fry Let. 21 Jan. (1972) I. 233 His scheme being raté is a blow to his prestige. 1910B. W. Wells Mod. French Lit. xiii. 477 The mean spirit of D'Argenton, the poet, who, with his attendant group of ratés, the failures of literature and art, forms a sort of mutual admiration club. 1949E. Hyams Not in our Stars v. 47 A raté sensualist, he would willingly have enjoyed an ‘affair’ with Miriam. 1966New Statesman 9 Sept. 369/1 Yves Montand..is too plump and groomed to make a creditable raté. a1970E. Starkie in J. Richardson Enid Starkie (1973) iii. 58 The raté, the typical Paris figure. 1977Times 7 Sept. 10/7 They are failures... They will all be ratés and hopeless when they are 30. |