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单词 métier
释义 mé·tier
\(ˈ)mā.|tyā, (ˈ)me.-\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: French, from Old French mestier, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin misterium, alteration of Latin ministerium work, occupation, ministry — more at ministry
1. : vocation, trade, business
 < to be a sailor, this is a lonely métierLamp >
 < blue sweatshirt, with grease from the truck and the stains of his métier marked on it — Kay Boyle >
 < the métier of the engineer or the practical scientist — Bernard Wall >
2.
 a. : a special line of activity
  < exploration was at that time the principal métier of British geography — O.J.R.Howarth >
 b. : an area of activity in which one is most expert, successful, or happy : forte
  < his métier seems to be rather the stage fabrication of rough-and-tumble popular entertainment — G.J.Nathan >
  < political oratory is not my métier — Francis Younghusband >
3. : the special techniques characteristic of an art or vocation : mode, method
 < new writers who have something to say and try to say it with sincerity and a grasp of the métier of the novelist — Nation >
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