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单词 déraciné
释义

déraciné

/deɪˈrasɪneɪ / /deʀasine/
adjective
(Of a person) uprooted from their natural environment; deracinated: the self-consciousness of déraciné Americans...
  • He talked of Les Cosmopolites and the literary scene in France before the war, of their obsession with foreign travel… the almost sexual thrill of being out of your own country: an outsider, déraciné, worldly, nomadic.
  • He saw the decadence that overtook Indian culture, but he admits he was déraciné.
  • "I was déraciné; an exile from the Jewish community and, I felt, not really accepted in the Christian community."
noun
A person who has been or feels deracinated: he became a déraciné, a nomad...
  • Conrad, of course, was a déraciné, which no doubt counts for a good deal in the intensity with which he renders his favourite theme of isolation.
  • Maurice, on reaching the age to choose a career, deliberately turned towards the provinces - he who was a déraciné, born of an Alsatian father and a Savoyard mother, and educated first at Paris, then at Dijon.
  • It follows that because he is spiritually alienated from his society, he is a déraciné, an individual without roots, going from one locale to another.

Origin

French, 'uprooted'.

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