| 释义 |
‖ tant bien que mal, advb. phr.|tɑ̃ bjɛ̃ kə mal|
[Fr., lit. ‘as well as badly’.]
With indifferent success; moderately well, after a fashion.
1765Ld. Chesterfield Let. (1774) II. 490 They amuse me, tant bien que mal, for an hour or two every morning. 1843Thackeray Irish Sk.-Bk. II. v. 97 Sketching, tant bien que mal, the bridge and the trees..the writer became an object of no small attention. 1890W. James Princ. Psychol. II. xxvi. 494 We explain the mystery tant bien que mal by our evolutionary theories. 1939Scrutiny VIII. 42 Thus his fleshly desires are satisfied, tant bien que mal. |