| 释义 |
relevé|rələve|
[Fr., lit. ‘raised up’.]
1. = remove n. 2 c.
1825C'tess Blessington Jrnl. Dec. in E. Clay Lady B. at Naples (1979) 141 The fragments of entrées and relevés. 1846Jewish Manual, or Pract. Information Jewish & Mod. Cookery p. xv, Releves, or Removes, are top and bottom dishes, which replace the soup and fish. 1889[see main course s.v. main a. 11]. 1906Mrs. Beeton's Bk. Househ. Managem. lxii. 1668 Relevé.., the remove. A course of a dinner, consisting of large joints of meat, four-footed game, and sometimes joints of fish. 1961Froud & Turgeon tr. Larousse Gastronomique 805/2 Remove. Relevé—Dish which in French service relieves (in the sense that one sentry relieves another) the soup or the fish.
2. Ballet. (See quot. 1957.)
1930Craske & Beaumont Theory & Pract. Allegro in Classical Ballet 66 Execute two Petits Battements with a relevé and dégagé. 1953Ballet Ann. VII. 83 That infinitesimal moment of holding the breath in a relevé on point in a held pose. 1957G. B. L. Wilson Penguin Dict. Ballet 227 Relevé or temps relevé, lit. a lifted step. The raising of the body on half- or full-point or points. 1976New Yorker 29 Mar. 92/3 He has an immobile thick torso, a heaviness in plié and relevé.
Add:3. Ecol. [First used in Fr. in this sense in 1922 Braun-Blanquet & Pavillard Vocab. de Sociol. Végétale 1.] A detailed description of the floristic or phytosociological characteristics of a small area within a stand of vegetation, considered as a sample; also, an area used as the basis for such a description, or the vegetation found there.
1930F. R. Bharucha tr. Braun-Blanquet & Pavillard's Vocab. Plant Sociol. 6 The Sociological ‘Relevé’..is a floristic enumeration accompanied by coefficients or numbers corresponding with analytical or synthetic characters mentioned below. It may relate to any plant population or to a particular example of a definite association. 1962Jrnl. Ecol. L. 765 It must now be shown how one decides that a group of relevés forms an association. 1983Watsonia XIV. 251 Relevés were made of Schoenus ferrugineus stands to illustrate the range of vegetation types in which the plant occurs. Ibid., At site B the intricate mosaic of vegetation-types demanded its sampling as a composite, single unit (relevés 5–7). |