| 释义 |
‖ entente|ɑ̃tɑ̃t|
[Fr.]
a. An understanding; most freq. used as a shortening of entente cordiale.
b. A group of states or powers connected by an entente cordiale.
1854Ld. Bloomfield Let. 9 Dec. in G. Bloomfield Remin. (1883) II. 47 Just at the moment that the King [of Prussia] was proclaiming the happy entente with Austria. 1878L. W. M. Lockhart Mine is Thine II. xxxv. 325 Esmé held out her hand, which he took; and thus the friendly entente was sealed! 1907Times 20 Apr. 8/2 But was there not an entente which must be the great ideal of every Briton—the entente cordiale, the entente commerciale between Great and Greater Britain? 1907Westm. Gaz. 16 Aug. 2/2 The reforms introduced in the Macedonian vilayets by the entente Powers. 1908Daily Chron. 14 Aug. 1/5 Why, asked Mr. Lloyd George, cannot we have an agreement with Germany, seeing that Great Britain has already concluded ententes with France, Russia, and the United States? 1920Glasgow Herald 5 Aug. 7 The young Austrian republic, whose existence would be endangered unless the Entente intervened. 1923Westm. Gaz. 23 Jan., The Little Entente (Roumania, Czecho-Slovakia, and Jugo-Slavia).
Hence enˈtentist, one who favours an entente.
1915Times 30 Aug. 5/7 Oh! you stupid Quadruple Ententists! 1924Glasgow Herald 24 Jan. 7 Carlotti, the Italian Ambassador at Petersburg and an Ententist. |