| 释义 |
out of place, adv. and a.
Brit. |ˌaʊtəvˈpleɪs|, U.S. |ˌaʊdə(v)ˈpleɪs|
[‹ out of prep. + place n.1]
A. adv. Out of, or not situated in, a natural or appropriate position or environment; out of keeping.
[1551R. Robinson tr. T. More Utopia (1895) 73 Wordes and saynges, brought furth so out of time and place, to make sporte and moue laughter.] 1560T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique f. 84v, Either we will vse soche wordes, as fewe men doe vse, or vse them out of place, when an other might serue moche better. 1567T. Drant tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie If..your words be out of place, Wyse men will sleepe, whiles theye are spoke and laughe at them apace. 1687Dryden Hind & Panther iii. 84 But dint of argument is out of place. 1764B. de Zuylen Let. 27 May in F. A. Pottle Boswell in Holland (1952) 379 He came often while I was ill, and was..surprised to find me always in good humour..; it seemed to him..out of place. 1853F. D. Maurice Theol. Ess. 77 The ordinary methods of controversy are entirely out of place. 1864E. B. Pusey Daniel (1876) 346 The two verses..are evidently..out of place. 1892Law Times 92 158/1 It may not be out of place to examine it here. 1915V. Woolf Voy. Out vii., A garden smoothly laid with turf..would have been out of place upon the side of this bare hill. 1985C. Phillips Final Passage 68 His hair..seemed a little matted and out of place. 1989M. Lane Literary Daughters v. 136 Mary Ann..felt out of place amid the smart clothes and superficial talk of her neighbours.
B. adj. That is out of (esp. a natural or appropriate) position; misplaced; (fig.) inappropriate, unsuitable, unseasonable.
1748S. Richardson Clarissa IV. liii. 315 All the out-of-place varlets of his numerous acquaintance, are summoned and employed in the same business. 1822C. Lamb Diss. Roast Pig in Elia (1st Ser.) I blamed my..out-of-place hypocrisy of goodness. 1949P. White Let. 2 May (1994) iii. 76 We also have a Judas tree at last, though a poor, sickly, doubtful thing in place of the out-of-place deodar, and a golden elm at the end of the back lawn. 2001Denver Post 21 Jan. f8/1 No out-of-place detail escaped her nit-picky eye. |