| 单词 |
carte du pays |
| 释义 |
‖ carte du pays|kartdypei| [Fr., lit. ‘map of the country’.] The lie of the land; also fig.
1744H. Walpole Let. 22 July (1955) XVIII. 483 Not being quite perfect in the carte du pays, told my Lady, [&c.]. 1840J. B. Fraser Trav. Koordistan II. xviii. 436 My companion, who knew the carte-du-pays well, had been prowling about to discover..the means of getting on. 1853Mrs. Gaskell Ruth II. ix. 228 [He] knew, from the carte du pays which the scouts of the parliamentary agent had given him, that Mr. Benson was a person to be conciliated. 1905R. Broughton Waif's Progr. ii. 11, I want, before you go, to give you a tiny carte du pays. |

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