| 释义 |
‖ pour rire, a. (adv.) phr.|pur rir|
[Fr., lit. ‘in order to laugh’.]
Of a kind or in a manner that causes amusement or derision, or suggests light-hearted or jocular pretence; not serious or in a serious manner.
1872B. Jerrold London x. 92 The laugh is general..over Smug who swept his own office once—and is no Liberal pour rire. 1884Sat. Rev. 3 May 562/2 The author of a motion admits that it is only a motion pour rire. 1909Mrs. H. Ward Daphne iii. ix. 219 ‘Then there was some local scandal?’.. ‘Possibly. Scandal pour rire! Not a soul believed that there was anything..in it.’ 1926A. Huxley Jesting Pilate i. 115 Hereditary aristocracies still exist in the West—exist, but pour rire. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 5 Feb. 96/4 These and other essays in the book are full of those analogies pour rire and elegant verbal jokes that so delight us nowadays. 1942J. Lees-Milne in Ancestral Voices (1975) 65 The King washed up after dinner, or rather carried some glasses into the pantry and made a gesture of washing up, ‘pour rire’. 1946A. L. Rowse Use of Hist. 173 They all came over in a coach... The lady who descended from it..was got up to look like one of the louche ladies of the Restoration Court of Charles II. It was all pour rire. 1959Punch 25 Mar. 411/2 A flight of facetious fancy, a suggestion pour rire. 1980Country Life 28 Feb. 609/2 The jokes about such jargon as ‘a fried-chicken taste that's lip-lickin' good’ have long ceased to be pour rire. |