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单词 terrain vague
释义 terrain vague|tɛrɛ̃ vag|
[Fr. colloq., lit. ‘waste ground’.]
Wasteland, no man's land (transf. and fig.).
1920R. Fry Let. 12 Oct. (1972) II. 493 I'm..painting up on Montmartre in a terrain vague with the hideous white tower of the Sacré Coeur dominating a jumble of modern houses.1934C. Lambert Music Ho! iii. 207 The same rapprochement between highbrow and lowbrow—both meeting in an emotional terrain vague—can be seen in literature.1957L. Durrell Bitter Lemons 48 His desk was in the far corner against the wall, and to reach it one traversed a terrain vague which resembled the basement of Maple's, so crowded was it with armchairs, desks, prams..and all the impedimenta of gracious living.1984Sunday Times 26 Aug. 38/8 Alastair Reid occupies a terrain vague between reportage and belles lettres.
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