| 单词 |
nostalgie de la boue |
| 释义 |
‖ nostalgie de la boue|nɔstalʒi də la bu|
[Fr., lit. = yearning for mud (Émile Augier Le Mariage d'Olympe (1855) i. i).]
A desire for degradation and depravity.
1897G. B. Shaw Our Theatres in Nineties (1932) III. 168 To him those habits were ‘morality’; and what was counter to them was ‘nostalgie de la boue’. 1905H. A. Vachell Hill vi. 121 She..said that I suffered from what the French call la nostalgie de la boue; that means, you know, the homesickness for the gutter. 1920G. Dickins Hellenistic Sculpture ii. 27 The Hellenistic sculptors..suffered as much as any modern decadent from ‘la nostalgie de la boue’. 1928D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley xix. 358 You're one of those half-insane, perverted women who must run after depravity, the nostalgie de la boue. 1957C. MacInnes City of Spades ii. xii. 181 It's the crude animal type that attracts you... It's simply another form of nostalgie de la boue. 1965Listener 9 Sept. 391/2 A cultural nostalgie de la boue for the nonsense of the 'thirties is surely perverse. 1969R. Lowell Notebook 1967–68 105 The Muse shouts vacation in my ear: Nostalgie de la boue that shelters ape And protozoa from the rights of man. 1971Southerly XXXI. 11 There may be a suggestion of nostalgie de la boue in his choice of sexual partners.
Similarly nostalgie de la banlieue [Fr., = suburbs], nostalgie des adieux [Fr., = farewells], nostalgie du divin [Fr., = divine], nostalgie du pavé, trottoir [Fr., = pavement], etc.
1933D. L. Sayers Murder must Advertise iii. 41 There is a nostalgie de la banilieu [sic] as well as de la boue. 1941Nostalgie des adieux [see faute de mieux]. 1944Horizon IX. 13 My reaction to everything not urban has been either one of acute melancholy or an urgent nostalgie du pavé. 1944M. Laski Love on Supertax ix. 88 ‘Every man has an urge to go Mayfairing once in his life.’..‘Nostalgie du trottoir,’ agreed Tatiana. 1948W. Stevens Let. 6 May (1967) 596 He speaks of the nostalgie du divin, (which is obviously epidemic in Dublin). 1972Times 27 Sept. 5/3 The archetypal early twentieth-century laboratory scented evocatively with Nostalgie de la Bunsen Burner. |
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