| 释义 |
‖ épatant, a.|epatɑ̃|
[Fr., pres. pple. of épater (see next).]
Shocking (to the conventionally-minded). (Usually with implied reference to the next.) Also absol.
1925G. B. Shaw Shaw on Theatre (1958) 171 The old anti-bourgeois weeklies..always Frondeur and épatant no matter who was in power, have disappeared. 1945W. Stevens Let. 16 May (1967) 500 No one seems to be more addicted to the epatant (but it is not in any meretricious sense). 1961Listener 16 Nov. 825/3 It has to be striking, astonishing, titillating, in a particular way—it has to be épatant. 1963Auden Dyer's Hand 502 When Benedick says, ‘Well, a horn for my money when all's done,’ he is being deliberately épatant. |