| 释义 |
‖ faute de mieux|fot də mjø|
[Fr.]
For want of something better; attrib., used for lack of an alternative.
1766Chesterfield Let. 13 June (1774) II. 501 The seals..were offered first to Lord Egmont, then to Lord Hardwicke;..but, after their going a begging for some time, the Duke of ― begged them, and has them faute de mieux. 1828Lytton Pelham xxxii, At seven o'clock, up came a cotelette pannée—faute de mieux, I swallowed the composition. 1865‘Ouida’ Strathmore ii, Still they were better than nothing, and were peppered faute de mieux that day. 1885W. James Let. 5 Feb. (1920) I. 238 This position..is a parti pris and a pis aller,—faute de mieux,—to continue the Gallic idiom. 1941Auden New Year Let. iii. 50 And finds romantic, faute de mieux, The sad nostalgie des adieux. 1949Koestler Insight & Outlook xii. 172 This faute de mieux procedure may seem to be a confirmation of the Freudian thesis. |