英语里的法语词汇（二）
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英语里的法语词汇（二） arte 脊，边缘 a narrow ridge. In French, also fishbone; edge of a polyhedron or graph; bridge of the nose. armoire 衣橱 a type of cabinet; wardrobe. art nouveau 新艺术 a style of decoration and architecture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It bears a capital in French (Art nouveau). 一种19世纪末到20世纪初的装饰、建筑风格。 attach 专员/随员 a person attached to an embassy; in French is also the past participle of the verb attacher (= to fasten, to tight, to be linked...) 大使馆的工作人员，在法语中也是动词attacher的过去式。 Attaque au Fer 击剑 An attack on the opponent’s blade in fencing, e.g. beat, expulsion, pressure. au contraire 相反地 on the contrary. au courant 与时俱进，跟进最新的消息 up-to-date; abreast of current affairs. au fait 熟悉的,精通的,能上任的 being conversant in or with, or instructed in or with. au jus 原汁的，原汤的 literally, with juice, referring to a food course served with sauce. Often redundantly formulated, as in ’Open-faced steak sandwich, served with au jus.’. No longer used in French, except for the slang "tre au jus" (to be informed) au pair 互惠生 a young foreigner who does domestic chores in exchange for room and board. In France, those chores are mainly child care/education. 年轻的外国人通过提供家务零工服务换取食宿，在法国这些零工一般都是照顾小孩或者做家教。 au revoir! 再见，一会儿见 "See you later!" In French a contraction of Au plaisir de vous revoir (to the pleasure of seeing you again). avant-garde (pl. avant-gardes) 先锋派[艺术流派之一] applied to cutting-edge or radically innovative movements in art, music and literature; figuratively "on the edge", literally, a military term, meaning "vanguard" (which is the deformation of avant-garde) or "advance guard", in other words, "first to attack" (antonym of arrire-garde). avant la lettre 前卫的 used to describe something or someone seen as a precursor or forerunner of something (such as an artistic or political movement) before that something was recognized and named, e.g. "a post-modernist avant la lettre", "a feminist avant la lettre"; the expression literally means before the letter, i.e. "before it had a name". avec plaisir 很荣幸地，愉快地 my pleasure (lit. "with pleasure") 相关资料 |
