| 释义 |
‖ serré, a.|sɛre|
[Fr., pa. pple. of serrer to close together.]
Compact, logical; constricted by grief or emotion.
a1854J. S. Mill Early Draft Autobiogr. (1961) 115 Our debates..habitually consisted of the strongest arguments & most philosophic principles which either side was able to produce, thrown often into close & serré confutations of one another. 1908D. H. Lawrence Let. 9 Oct. (1962) I. 28 My heart is ‘serré’—I shall soon have nothing inside my chest but the spent fragments of my organ of affection. 1931T. S. Eliot Sel. Essays (1932) vii. 448 Whether the transition is cogent or not, is merely a question of whether the mind is serré or dolié. |