单词 | nous autres |
释义 | nous autrespron. We, us (as opposed to somebody or anybody else). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [noun] > individuality or selfhood > self > we or us useOE wec1400 nous autres1799 1799 tr. G. E. Lessing School for Honor iv. ii. 67 It is not necessaire your Ladiship be there: nous autres be ver honest with one another. 1860 C. J. Lever All Year Round III. 470/1 We were, in fact, henceforth ‘nous autres’. 1870 J. C. Patteson Let. 9 Dec. in C. M. Yonge Life J. C. Patteson (1874) II. xii. 472 We fail to understand him, nous autres I mean, outside the sanctuary. 1883 R. Broughton Belinda II. iii. iii. 213 ‘Pooh!’ she says, with a hard laugh; ‘we are not so fastidious here, nous autres; I walk out to dinner every night of my life!’ 1903 H. James Ambassadors vi. xv. 205 Certainly, I'm good enough. We're good enough, I consider, nous autres, for anything. 1911 E. M. Clowes On Wallaby v. 140 It gave us a nasty lumpy feeling in our throats—nous autres who had nobody to come and see us. 2000 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 21 Nov. a2 The Parti Quebecois government is very adept at playing the nous autres vs. les autres card. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < pron.1799 |
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