[每日] mot juste (n) 貼切的詞語
Word of the Day (Thursday November 6, 2008)
mot juste \moh-ZHOOST\, noun:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/ac57k
a word or phrase that exactly fits the case
The poet's concern for the mot juste nearly always makes his prose
a thing of interest and beauty.
-- Robert Peel, Lyrical Impressions, Christian Science Monitor,
September 19, 1930
"My west window," says the ancient Canon D'Ascoyne, showing a
visitor around his ancient church, "has all of the..." he searches
for the mot juste, "exuberance of Chaucer, without any of the...
concomitant crudities."
-- Vincent Canby, Sir Alec: Amid the Laurels, Very Hardy, New York
Times, April 25, 1983
With his high forehead, beard and meticulous concentration on the
mot juste, Mr. MacNicol could almost pass for the great minor poet
that Mark Van Doren deemed Richard to be.
-- Frank Rich, 'Richard II' in the Park, New York Times, July 9,
1983
from French mot "word" and juste "right"
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