| 释义 |
‖ saugrenu, a.|sogrəny|
Also fem. pl. saugrenues.
[Fr.]
Absurd, preposterous, ridiculous.
1876W. James Let. 5 July in R. B. Perry Tht. & Char. W. James (1935) I. 371 The saugrenu, comic Shakespeare scenes. 1889E. Dowson Let. 18 Oct. (1967) 110, I have many adventures to tell you of—some assez saugrenues. 1908‘Odysseus’ Turkey in Europe (ed. 2) xiii. 440 The Great Powers of Europe are very like ordinary prejudiced individuals, not to say the lower animals. What they shy at one day, what they denounce with diminishing invective as impossible, revolutionary sangrenu, or crude, they accept a few years later as a matter of course. 1933N. & Q. CLXV. 378/2 If we take ‘chevalier’ as addressed by Christ to the poet, do we not get merely a retort—frigid, and, by reason of the historical association a little saugrenu? |