| 单词 | le mot juste |
| 释义 | > as lemmasle mot juste The precisely appropriate word or expression. Frequently in le mot juste. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > phrase > [noun] > term or expression > apt or fitting a word on its (or upon the) wheels1655 mot juste1896 1896 Pall Mall Gaz. 6 Jan. 4 The Speaker, for instance, no doubt with the artist's pride in finding le mot juste, has described his blank verse as ‘sinewy’. 1900 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 353/2 A certain small girl with an extraordinary apprehension of the mot juste. 1915 E. Pound in J. Joyce Lett. (1966) II. 364 My head is a squeezed rag, so don't expect le mot juste in this letter. 1932 P. G. Wodehouse Louder & Funnier 8 Most of these essays were written..at a time when the wolf at the door left little leisure for careful thought and the patient search for the mot juste. 1991 A. S. Byatt Passions of Mind (1993) vi. 111 Their masters were Stendhal, Maupassant, and above all Flaubert, with his insistence on le mot juste. < as lemmas |
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