英语词汇“mystique”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

mystique

释义

mystique|mɪˈstiːk|
[F. mystique: see mystic a. and n.]
The atmosphere of mystery and veneration investing some doctrines, arts, professions, or personages; any professional skill or technique which is designed to mystify and impress the layman.
1891E. Dowson Let. 10 May (1967) 197 Its curious mixture of French technique & the mystique of Rossetti.1940Economist 14 Sept. 330/1 It is assumed that the only policy which can counter the Hitlerian mystique is that of ‘European Revolution’ which has a mystique of its own.1940Time 21 Oct. 94/2 In the '30s Ernest Hemingway expounded the mystique of bullfighting in Death in the Afternoon.1943H. Read Politics of Unpolitical ii. 27 But I do not claim that the principle of equality is a rational doctrine. On the contrary, it is an irrational dogma, a mystique.1949‘G. Orwell’ Nineteen Eighty-Four ii. 211 All the beliefs, habits, tastes, emotions, mental attitudes that characterize our time are really designed to sustain the mystique of the Party.1951Observer 2 Dec. 4/6 The ‘mystique’ built up around him [sc. Stalin] has become a genuine outlet for the Russian religious instinct.1951Sunday Times 16 Dec. 4 True, the new style [of the Civil Servant] has its own mystique, and the Mr. Alphabet Precis today prides himself on knowing when to write ‘Dear’ and when ‘My dear’ [etc.].1952M. Muggeridge in A. Mayor tr. Ciano's Diaries 1937–8 p. viii, The strange mixture of bombast, lies, cynicism and sincerity which furnished its [sc. the Fascist Regime's] mystique.1952A. Powell Buyer's Market 141 Money, with its multifarious imagery and restrictive mystique.1955H. Spring These Lovers fled Away 316 Talk to me about wine. To me it's something I drink... But to them it's a mystique.1958Times 25 Apr. 3/1 There is a mystique about violins, especially old violins.1958Spectator 20 June 813/1 His System has been..damned by lazy actors as a rarefied mystique.1959Times Lit. Suppl. 15 May 284/5 The particular virtue of this account is that it shows how the task was done and thereby disposes of its mystique without destroying the belief that it was a miracle.1960Times 7 Jan. 13/2 Flying, both the mystique and the technicalities of it, plays its part, too, in the Egyptian stories.1972Guardian 3 Nov. 12/4 The City, of course, talks its own language and this has helped to add to the mystique.

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