| 单词 |
va-et-vient |
| 释义 |
‖ va-et-vient|va e vjɛ̃|
[Fr., lit. ‘goes-and-comes’.]
Coming and going, toing and froing; commerce, exchange; bandying (of argument).
1919R. Fry Let. 3 Nov. (1972) II. 465 There is..a considerable va et vient of Paris artists. 1933G. Arthur Septuagenarian's Scrap Book 18 For a large percentage of women life, day in day out, is a happy va-et-vient, sometimes rich in excellent results of practical value, sometimes only resolving itself into a flutter of delicious nothings. 1959C. Spry Favourite Flowers iii. 28 Looking back over the quite gentle va-et-vient of this argument I know that really we are in agreement. 1966Guardian 19 Mar. 7/4 All the well-intentioned wordy va-et-vient about Capote's book. 1978N.Y. Rev. Bks. 23 Feb. 8/3 In one university which has an art school, a history of art department, and a school of architecture and planning within five hundred yards of one another, the influence of one upon the other, or even the va et vient among the three, is virtually nonexistent. 1981Times Lit. Suppl. 22 May 563/2 His whole teasing va-et-vient between the past and the present, at one moment restricting himself to ‘period’ viewpoint.., at the next speaking as from the 1970s. |
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