| 单词 | mot |
| 释义 | mot (once / 8191 pages) n When you impress your friends with a witty observation or a funny quip, you use a mot. Your favorite teacher might be well known for her clever mots. If someone uses the perfect word or puts things in a particularly amusing way, they're skilled with a mot — short for a bon mot, or a "good saying" or "good word" in French. Mot is used in French to mean a "remark" or "short speech," and it comes from the Latin root mutum, "mutter" or "grunt." WORD FAMILYmot: mots USAGE EXAMPLESIn January, when PhD students jostle for jobs at the annual meeting of the American Economic Association, a “market” might seem the mot juste. Economist(Nov 24, 2016) Beneath one of these makeshift tents, she saw her baby, Tariq’s baby, its temples wasted, its jaws slack, its skin mot- ded, bluish gray. Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns(2007) And she is a constant presence on social media, issuing poetic-philosophical bon mots on Twitter and posting photos on Instagram. New York Times(Oct 27, 2016) n a clever remark Syn|Hyper bon mot humor, humour, wit, witticism, wittiness a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter MOT (once / 268621 pages) n WORD FAMILY MOT: MOTS USAGE EXAMPLESThe Wales forward is heading down the tunnel, when presumably the doctors and medical staff will give him a quick MOT. The Guardian(Jan 17, 2016) She said there had been one instance of a car failing its MOT because a rat had chewed through its brake cables. BBC(Nov 19, 2015) A number of specialist companies advertise removing them and it's not illegal to do so, although your car should fail its MOT without one. BBC(Sep 15, 2015) n a compulsory annual test of older motor vehicles for safety and exhaust fumes Syn|Hyper MOT test, Ministry of Transportation test run, test, trial the act of testing something |
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