| 释义 |
‖ honnête homme|ɔnɛtɔm|
[Fr.]
An honest, decent man; a gentleman.
1666W. Temple Let. 1 Apr. in Wks. (1720) II. 18 Confessor is honneste Homme. 1709Swift Let. 13 Nov. in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden, 1843) 341, I ever thought it a mighty oversight in Courts to let the honnete homme, the homme d'esprit, and homme de bien, gain ground among them. 1923Ogden & Richards Meaning of Meaning i. 21 The honnête homme may be unprepared for the lengths to which verbal ingenuity can be carried. 1931T. S. Eliot Charles Whibley 10 Whibley had this discretion, that of the honnête homme as critic, to select subjects suited to his own temperament. 1937A. Huxley Ends & Means i. 2 The honnête homme makes his appearance as the ideal of seventeenth-century gentlemen. 1960J. Bayley Characters of Love iii. 131 Iago..is in many ways a terrible parody of the Augustan honnête homme. 1970Times 12 May 11/1 His opening speech on tobacco, far from being a declaration on behalf of the honnête homme, is a means of forcing his will. |