| 释义 |
‖ double entente|dubl ɑ̃tɑ̃ːt|
[Fr.]
= double entendre.
1895‘H. S. Merriman’ Sowers (1896) xx. 163 He had a deft way..of planting a double entente. 1909Westm. Gaz. 24 July 4/3 Our journalists have used more often the incorrect phrase double entendre than the French critics the phrase double entente, which is the term that our writers ought to employ. 1934Punch 19 Dec. 692/1 There are of course occasions for laughter, the loudest laughter being very naturally given to those ‘double ententes’ which are readily offered by the association of boy scouts and girl guides in camp. 1938H. G. Wells Apropos of Dolores iv. 154 There's a lot of this double-entente in French, I know. 1957B. & C. Evans Dict. Contemp. Amer. Usage 142/2 There is no use pointing out that double entendre does not exist in French and that the proper phrase for a double meaning, one of them usually indelicate, is double entente. |