| 释义 |
‖ reculer pour mieux sauter, phr.|rəkyle pur mjø sote|
[Fr., lit. ‘to draw back in order to leap better’.]
Making use of a withdrawal or setback in such a way as to advance or succeed all the more.
[c1500J. D'Arras Mesuline (1895) xx. 113 Alwayes wyse men goo abacke for to lepe the ferther.] 1820Lady Granville Let. 30 Aug. (1894) I. 170 ‘Yes,’ he said, ‘with people in general it is reculer pour mieux sauter, with her sauter pour mieux reculer.’ 1907G. B. Shaw Let. 21 Mar. (1972) II. 675 The sales that are influenced by my name go up steadily from year to year; and all the apparent slumps are cases of ‘reculer pour mieux sauter’. 1920D. H. Lawrence Women in Love i. 6, I think my coming back home was just reculer pour mieux sauter. 1951R. F. Harrod Life J. M. Keynes x. 431 This was, in his mind, a case of reculer pour mieux sauter. 1972Times 30 May (Hongkong Suppl.) p. v/4 The hesitation in currency circulation in 1967–1968 following the fall in deposits was a matter of reculer pour mieux sauter: growth..took off again. |