| 释义 |
unapropos, a. and adv.|ʌnæprəˈpəʊ, ʌnˈæprəpəʊ|
[un-1 7, 11 b.]
Not apropos; irrelevant(ly); inappropriate(ly).
1840H. Mozley Let. 13 Oct. in D. Mozley Newman Family Lett. (1962) iii. 92, I have none of the un-a-propos propensities that would stand in the way of engagement with some ladies. 1940J. Pope-Hennessy Let. in J. Lees-Milne Ancestral Voices (1975) 267 Christianity..seems a clear and tranquil stream running parallel to but utterly detached from the turgid river of the war, and..too unapropos for words. 1956R. Robinson Landscape with Dead Dons xxi. 194, I was chatting to Christelow when it occurred to me quite unapropos that one of the things they had in common was The Book. |