“pis aller”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

pis aller

释义

‖ pis aller|pizale|
[F., lit. ‘go worst’.]
The worst that can be, or can happen; what one would do, take, choose, etc., in the event of things coming to the worst; what one accepts when one can do no better; a do-no-better, a last resource.
1676G. Etherege Man of Mode i. i, Dorimant, when did you see your pis-aller, as you call her, Mrs. Loveit?1800M. Edgeworth Belinda (1832) II. xxv. 158 She was incapable of the meanness of retaining a lover as a pis-aller.1808Edin. Rev. XI. 438 A balance of trade paid in the precious metals, is the pis-aller of foreign commerce.1847Disraeli Tancred i. i, As a pis aller one might put up with him.1874Morley Compromise ii. 63 To me the history of mankind is a huge pis-aller..a prodigious wasteful experiment.

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