英语词汇“faute de mieux”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

faute de mieux

释义

‖ faute de mieux|fot də mjø|
[Fr.]
For want of something better; attrib., used for lack of an alternative.
1766Chesterfield Let. 13 June (1774) II. 501 The seals..were offered first to Lord Egmont, then to Lord Hardwicke;..but, after their going a begging for some time, the Duke of ― begged them, and has them faute de mieux.1828Lytton Pelham xxxii, At seven o'clock, up came a cotelette pannée—faute de mieux, I swallowed the composition.1865‘Ouida’ Strathmore ii, Still they were better than nothing, and were peppered faute de mieux that day.1885W. James Let. 5 Feb. (1920) I. 238 This position..is a parti pris and a pis aller,—faute de mieux,—to continue the Gallic idiom.1941Auden New Year Let. iii. 50 And finds romantic, faute de mieux, The sad nostalgie des adieux.1949Koestler Insight & Outlook xii. 172 This faute de mieux procedure may seem to be a confirmation of the Freudian thesis.

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