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单词 comédie humaine
释义

comédie humainen.

Brit. /kɒməˌdiː uːˈmɛn/, U.S. /kɑməˌdi ˌuˈmɛn/
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French comédie humaine.
Etymology: < French comédie humaine (1665 or earlier; 1842 as the title of a series of novels by Honoré de Balzac) < comédie comedy n.1 + humaine , feminine of humain human adj.Not fully naturalized in English. O.E.D. Suppl. (1972) gives only the non-naturalized pronunciation /ˈkɔmedi ˌymɛn/.
The sum or scope of everyday human affairs, considered as an extended narrative; a literary portrait of this.Sometimes with reference to the series of works collectively titled La Comédie humaine by the French author Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850).
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the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun] > business claiming attention > an occupation or affair > affairs > of life
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human affairs1542
life1763
nightlife1852
comédie humaine1876
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > [noun] > sequence or series of novels
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1876 Gentleman's Mag. New Ser. 17 413 The artist who ignores the existence of even improbable exceptions gives..a very false representation of the comédie humaine.
1879 H. H. Walker Comédie Humaine & its Author 27 The idea of the ‘Comédie Humaine’ as a whole did not occur to the author until he had been at work for six years.
1935 A. Huxley Let. June (1969) 397 The Congress was, of course, a great disappointment... Amusing to observe, as a rather discreditable episode in the Comédie Humaine.
1948 E. Blunden Shakespeare to Hardy xi. 160 In the power of exploring the comédie humaine, Dickens had no superior anywhere.
1967 P. E. H. Durston Mortissimo (1968) ix. 68 He watched this protected and sun-blessed segment of the comédie humaine.
2009 D. Potter Tracing Paradise iii. 26 While Paradise Lost is no comédie humaine, Milton himself lived in the thick of the real.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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