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单词 ville lumière
释义 ville lumière|vil lymjɛr|
[Fr., = town or city of light(s).]
A brightly-lit city or town; an exciting modern city or town; la Ville Lumière, Paris.
1920W. J. Locke House of Baltazar xiv. 166 London ceased to be a city of dreadful night. In his enthusiastic eyes it had almost become a ville lumière.1922A. M. Hyamson Dict. Eng. Phrases 353/2 Ville Lumière, La, (Fr., the light-city; the city of lights): Paris.1923W. J. Locke Moordius & Co. vii. 94 We are but nursing the lamp of la Ville Lumière till better times.1955E. Waugh Officers & Gentlemen 137 Cape Town at the extremity of two dark continents was a ville lumière such as Trimmer had sought in vain.1980Listener 25 Sept. 389/1 The Eiffel Tower..proclaimed la ville lumière to be the modernist capital.
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