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单词 mal du siècle
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Definition of mal du siècle in English:

mal du siècle

noun ˌmal d(j)uː ˈsjɛklmal dy sjɛklˌmal də sēˈek(lə)
mass noun
  • World-weariness.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He is also a principal figure in French romanticism although his romanticism is less the melancholy, maudlin mal du siècle of many his contemporaries.
    • Zeno is a hypochondriacal, neurotic, delightful, solipsistic, self-examining and self-serving bourgeois, a true blossom of the mal du siècle.
    • I find Weldon's coverage of her Girls' High School days rather sad, pathetic and tinged with a sort of private mal du siècle.
    • For the Romantics, mal du siècle was the equivalent of ‘The Elizabethan Malady.’
    • Never before nor after, so far as I know, has the famous mal du siècle been so succinctly expressed in a single sentence.

Origin

French, literally 'sickness of the century'.

 
 

Definition of mal du siècle in US English:

mal du siècle

nounˌmal də sēˈek(lə)
  • World-weariness.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I find Weldon's coverage of her Girls' High School days rather sad, pathetic and tinged with a sort of private mal du siècle.
    • Zeno is a hypochondriacal, neurotic, delightful, solipsistic, self-examining and self-serving bourgeois, a true blossom of the mal du siècle.
    • Never before nor after, so far as I know, has the famous mal du siècle been so succinctly expressed in a single sentence.
    • For the Romantics, mal du siècle was the equivalent of ‘The Elizabethan Malady.’
    • He is also a principal figure in French romanticism although his romanticism is less the melancholy, maudlin mal du siècle of many his contemporaries.

Origin

French, literally ‘sickness of the century’.

 
 
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