单词 | enfant terrible |
释义 | enfant terriblen. A child who embarrasses his elders by untimely remarks; transferred a person who compromises his associates or his party by unorthodox or ill-considered speech or behaviour; loosely, one who acts unconventionally. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unseemly behaviour or unseemliness > one who behaves in unseemly manner enfant terrible1851 1851 Fraser's Mag. Mar. 322/1 He..seemed to tell all these stories just as an enfant terrible might, without fully understanding them. 1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xxi. 194 The enfant terrible, young Alfred,..announcing to all the company at dessert, that Ethel was in love with Clive. 1885 ‘L. Malet’ Col. Enderby's Wife II. iii. v. 27 That enfant terrible of Mrs. Farrell's is not coming back, I trust? 1930 T. Karsavina Theatre St. III. xxiv. 293 A permanent figure of the theatre was Jean Cocteau, the enfant terrible of rehearsals. 1939 D. Cecil Young Melbourne iii. 87 She..spoke her mind with enfant terrible candour. 1940 Ann. Reg. 1939 10 The enfant terrible of the party, who once more did not see eye to eye with his colleagues. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < |
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