| 释义 |
‖ métier|metje|
[Fr.:—popular L. *misterium, alteration of L. ministerium (see ministry), prob. influenced by mystērium mystery.]
A trade or profession: in Eng. use chiefly transf., a person's ‘line’, that in which one is specially skilled.
1792C. Smith Desmond I. xiii. 253 They wanted, indeed, to make me a monk; but I had a mortal aversion to that métier. 1842Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. ii. Auto-da-fé, Heretic-burning—in fact, 'tis his métier. 1895Zangwill Master ii. vii. 211 Black-and-white was no more his métier than humour. 1950T. S. Eliot Cocktail Party iii. 157 You understand your metier, Mr. Quilpe—Which is the most that any of us can ask for. 1958Listener 27 Nov. 874/1 It is fashionable to regard technical and physical craft [in the theatre] as adventitious and to have no sense whatever of what the French call métier. 1975Times 18 Sept. 36/2 The parallels started to extend from the man to the métier. |