| 释义 |
‖ à tort et à travers, advb. phr.|a tɔr e a travɛr|
[Fr., lit. ‘wrongly and across’.]
At random, haphazardly; without fixed principle.
1749Ld. Chesterfield Let. 24 Oct. (1774) I. 479 Pray speak it [sc. Italian] in company, right or wrong, à tort ou a travers. 1778F. Burney Diary 25 July (1842) 21 They were..afraid of praising à tort et à travers, as their opinions are liable to be quoted. 1834J. S. Mill in Monthly Repos. VIII. 391 That kind of philosophic pedantry, which, when it has got hold of a few truths which it conceives to be a test of superiority over the vulgar, applies them à tort et à travers. 1856C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain I. i. 47 She found herself going à tort et à travers all the morning. 1921G. B. Shaw in Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Mar. 178/2 It bristles with mad hyphens à tort et à travers. |