| 单词 |
âme damnée |
| 释义 |
‖ âme damnée|ɑm dane| [Fr., lit. ‘damned soul’.] A devoted adherent; a tool.
1823Scott Peveril IV. xii. 288 He is the ame damnée of every one about my court—the scape-goat, who is to carry away all their iniquities. 1830C. C. F. Greville Mem. (1874) II. xiii. 96 He [sc. Sefton] is the âme damnée of Lord Grey, and defends everything of course. 1879M. E. Braddon Vixen III. vii. 185 Their âmes damnées, the men who hold their hods and mix their mortar. 1917Asquith Let. 13 Nov. (1933) I. 46 We are having Col. House, the Head of the American ‘Mission’, to lunch; he is President Wilson's own particular âme damnée. 1938S. Beckett Murphy iv. 54 Neary..boarded the first train for Dublin, accompanied by his âme damnée and man-of-all work, Cooper. |

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