英语词汇“peau de chagrin”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

peau de chagrin

释义

‖ peau de chagrin|po də ʃagrɛ̃|
[Fr., lit. ‘skin of grained leather’.]
The title of a novel by Balzac (1831), in which a piece of shagreen diminishes in size as wishes are granted through its magic power, used fig. or allusively to indicate the progressive diminution of the human life-span.
1861Geo. Eliot Let. 31 Dec. (1954) III. 475 The years of retrieval keep shrinking—the terrible peau de chagrin whose outline narrows..with our ebbing life.1910W. J. Locke Simon v. 56, I see my little allotted span of life shrinking visibly, like the peau de chagrin.1946L. P. Hartley Sixth Heaven v. 111 Money..[is] really like the Peau de Chagrin, and dwindles with every wish.

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