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Froideur is a cool, way of behaving — not a shout, not a fight, but a chill in how someone speaks or looks at you. English borrowed the word from French, where it literally means , and English still treats it as a rather fancy, written word. You meet it in novels, reviews, and newspaper sketches of public people, not in the school corridor. A teacher would just say cold or ; froideur adds a slightly proud, distant flavour, as if the person is holding you away on purpose. It names the manner, not a cold in the head, and it is not a word most speakers reach for in speech.
冷淡、冷傲(書面、帶法文味道;口語多半只說冷淡)
組成Borrowed from French froideur, literally “coldness”.
同家族的字
- frigidboth go back to the idea of cold; frigid is the older Latin cousin
原始詞典資料2 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。
froideurnoun/fɹwɑːˈdɜː(ɹ)/
- 1
A cold or indifferent manner.
- 2
A chill in relations.
- "There was a froideur between the Bank of England and the Swiss central bank for some time," recalled Collins.
- When I look over at Chase[…] he stares back at Baron with such withering froideur that he resembles one of those Dust Bowl farmers in a Dorothea Lange portrait.
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。