| 释义 |
‖ temps perdu|tɑ̃ pɛrdy|
[Fr., ‘time lost’; used with allusion to Proust: see recherche du temps perdu.]
The past, contemplated with nostalgia and a sense of irretrievability.
1932S. O'Faoláin Midsummer Night Madness 75 Life is too pitiful in these recapturings of the temps perdu, these brief intervals of reality. 1942Partridge Usage & Abusage 95/2 One may question whether peace and prosperity will return with or without this word.. the ‘Sesame’ of le temps perdu. 1962John o' London's 20 Sept. 287/3 A nostalgic atmosphere, an old-timers' temps perdu. 1969Listener 22 May 734/2 The wizened wordsmith..was on the scent of temps perdu: in particular those heady years of the early Thirties. 1975A. Price Our Man in Camelot vi. 111 It's a natural human feeling to yearn for the good old days, le temps perdu. |