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单词 dépaysé
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Definition of dépaysé in English:

dépaysé

(also dépaysée)
adjective deɪˈpeɪzeɪdepeizeˌdāpāˈzā
  • Removed from one's habitual surroundings.

    he was not yet so dépaysé that he had forgotten the language of the village pub
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is shocking to become so dépaysé and it is doubtless very demoralizing to live in a country where it is so easy to be Somebody - but it is very agreeable.
    • The man of today is beginning to be disoriented with respect to himself, dépaysé, he is outside of his country, thrown into a new circumstance that is like a terra incognita.
    • Po Chü-i was as much dépaysé at a provincial town as Charles Lamb would have been at Botany Bay.

Origin

French, '(removed) from one's own country'.

 
 

Definition of dépaysé in US English:

dépaysé

(also dépaysée)
adjectiveˌdāpāˈzā
  • Removed from one's habitual surroundings.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is shocking to become so dépaysé and it is doubtless very demoralizing to live in a country where it is so easy to be Somebody - but it is very agreeable.
    • Po Chü-i was as much dépaysé at a provincial town as Charles Lamb would have been at Botany Bay.
    • The man of today is beginning to be disoriented with respect to himself, dépaysé, he is outside of his country, thrown into a new circumstance that is like a terra incognita.

Origin

French, ‘(removed) from one's own country’.

 
 
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