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Bonhomie is the warm, easy friendliness that sits over a group — people smiling, teasing kindly, making room for each other. It is not one person's private kindness so much as the mood between people: a dinner that feels loose and good, a team that actually likes being in the same room. The word is borrowed from French and still feels a little dressed-up in English. You meet it in writing, in speeches, in newspaper sketches of a party, more than in everyday chat. A friend would just say everyone was really friendly. When people do use it, they sometimes stretch it: 'forced bonhomie' means the smiles are on the surface and the warmth is not quite real. That hedge matters. True bonhomie is easy; fake bonhomie is work.
和樂、熱絡的氣氛(書面、帶點法文腔)。日常比較會說「大家很合、很熱絡」。不是「好家庭」——字面上有 homme(人),不是 home(家)。
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
bonhomienoun/ˈbɒnəmiː/
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A friendly, good-natured, pleasant manner; an affable and approachable disposition; friendliness.
- His ungainly person and awkward manners were against him with men accustomed to the graces of society, and he was not sufficiently at home to give play to his humor and to that bonhomie which won the hearts of all who knew him.
- [T]he unknown Arlo Guthrie takes the stage, ending up in the movie, and – through sheer bonhomie – selling a million copies of Alice's Restaurant.
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An atmosphere of friendliness and good cheer.
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A cheerful remark.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。