| 释义 |
‖ blanc-bec|blɑ̃ bɛk|
[Fr., lit. ‘white beak’.]
A raw youngster, greenhorn.
c1845C. Brontë Professor (1857) I. xii. 219 It was nonsense for her to think of taking such a ‘blanc-bec’ as a husband, since she must be at least ten years older than I. 1853― Villette I. ix. 172 You should have seen what a blanc-bec he looked..how he hesitated and blushed. 1923Conrad Rover viii. 132, I may be disparu but I am too solid yet for any blancbec that loses his temper. |