| 单词 | la belle époque |
| 释义 | > as lemmasla belle époque With the or in la belle époque. A period of peace, prosperity, and progress; a golden age; spec. the period of peace and prosperity in the Western world in the decades preceding the First World War (1914–18), characterized by cultural vitality, artistic accomplishment, and scientific progress, esp. as epitomized in Parisian society at that time. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > [noun] > time of prosperity highOE golden age1561 halcyon days1570 gilded age1655 heyday1751 high point1787 millennium1821 palmy days1837 up1843 clover summer1866 flower-time1873 belle époque1910 glory-days1956 1910 Archit. Rec. 28 352/2 For two months it will be Delafosse and the ‘belle epoque’ of Louis XVI. Then there is a sudden reversion to the Roman sternness of Piranesi. 1947 Burlington Mag. Apr. 105/1 Pierre Bonnard..belonged essentially to the last days of the nineteenth century: he was formed during the ‘Belle epoque’ of Parisian life. 1960 Guardian Jan. 11 4/4 Almost mythical institutions in the Paris society of the belle époque. 1966 A. E. Hotchner Papa Hemingway iv. 75 I'm going so damn good now, and in a real belle époque. 1986 Amer. Scholar 65 484 At almost forty, I had my belle époque. 1995 Observer 10 Sept. (Life Suppl.) 62/1 France's most outrageous..music-hall performer, the toast of La Belle Epoque. 1995 J. Shreeve Neandertal Enigma (1996) iv. 92 The skull—about 70,000 years old, dating from the Neandertal belle époque. 2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 4 Nov. a4/2 Nicknamed ‘the Green Fairy’,..absinthe was associated with the writers, painters, prostitutes and anarchists of the belle epoque. < as lemmas |
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