单词 | plus ça change |
释义 | plus ça changephr. ‘The more things change, the more they stay the same’: used to suggest that human nature, institutions, etc., are always fundamentally the same, despite apparent changes. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change [phrase] tempora mutantur1577 the wind has changed1615 here today and gone tomorrow1687 plus ça change1893 1893 Northern Whig 27 Feb. 6/3 (headline) ‘Plus ça change,’&c.. 1900 Mind 9 109 The dreary doctrine that ‘it is all one’ has maintained its unity in the diversity of its manifestations and admirably illustrated the dictum plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.] 1955 Times 5 July 11/4 We have an uneasy suspicion that there is something to be said for the epic angle on history. After all, when boy met—or meets—girl, plus ça change. 1966 New Statesman 2 Sept. 306/1 Meanwhile it is a sort of lottery whether a murderer is hanged or not..Out of seven capital sentences passed at the Winter Assizes 1871/1872, only one was carried out. Plus ça change. 2000 Times 12 May ii. 5/1 Well plus ça change: tell us something we don't know. Derivatives ˌplus ça ˈchange-ness n. the quality of remaining fundamentally the same over periods of apparent change.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1966 New Statesman 2 Sept. 312/3 Browsing in my current bedside book, The Paston Letters, I have been struck by the plus ça change-ness of the human animal. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < phr.1893 |
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