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单词 temps perdu
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temps perdun.

/tɒm pɛːˈd(j)uː//tɒm ˈpɛːd(j)uː/
Etymology: French, ‘time lost’; used with allusion to Proust: see recherche du temps perdu n.
The past, contemplated with nostalgia and a sense of irretrievability.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > [noun]
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1932 S. O'Faoláin Midsummer Night Madness 75 Life is too pitiful in these recapturings of the temps perdu, these brief intervals of reality.
1942 E. Partridge Usage & Abusage 95/2 One may question whether peace and prosperity will return with or without this word.. the ‘Sesame’ of le temps perdu.
1962 John o' London's 20 Sept. 287/3 A nostalgic atmosphere, an old-timers' temps perdu.
1969 Listener 22 May 734/2 The wizened wordsmith..was on the scent of temps perdu: in particular those heady years of the early Thirties.
1975 A. Price Our Man in Camelot vi. 111 It's a natural human feeling to yearn for the good old days, le temps perdu.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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