| 释义 |
‖ mot juste|mo ʒyst|
[Fr., lit. ‘exact word’.]
The precisely appropriate expression.
1912Nation (N.Y.) 14 Mar. 264 Here and throughout we have conspicuously the mot juste, not one too many and each where it will tell. 1915E. Pound in Joyce Lett. (1966) II. 364 My head is a squeezed rag, so don't expect le mot juste in this letter. 1916[see dim a. 4 b]. 1932Wodehouse Louder & Funnier 8 Most of these essays were written..at a time when the wolf at the door left little leisure for careful thought and the patient search for the mot juste. 1955E. Pound Section: Rock-Drill lxxxv. 17 Get the mot juste before action. 1966J. Dos Passos Best Times (1968) ii. 44 For years I'd been reading Flaubert: letters, short stories... I caught his obsession for the mot juste. |