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Hauteur is a proud, very manner — the cold “I am above you” way of standing, looking, or speaking. It is a noun, the name of the manner, not a word you put in front of a person. You can speak with hauteur, or look at someone with hauteur; you cannot say “a hauteur woman” (say haughty instead). It is borrowed from French, and it sounds fancy on purpose. You will almost never hear it in a shop or a classroom chat; it lives in novels and rather literary writing. Though actually it means much the same as haughtiness, but hauteur keeps a French flavour, as if the pride is polished and distant.
高傲、架子、傲慢的神態(書面/文雅,來自法文;口語較常說「很高傲」)
組成Borrowed from French hauteur, from French haut (“high”) + -eur (an ending that names a quality).
同家族的字
- haughtysame French haut “high”; haughty describes the person
- haughtinessthe ordinary English noun for that same proud, cold quality
原始詞典資料1 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。
hauteurnoun/oʊˈtɝ/
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Haughtiness or arrogance; loftiness.
- Who ever went into a public office, and was treated, as he is very apt to be, with the most offensive hauteur by some saucy, well-paid official, without feeling the desire to kick him rising strong within him?
- “What's happened, young Herring?” I think for a moment he was about to draw himself up with hauteur and say he would prefer, if we didn't mind, not to discuss his private affairs, but when he was half-way up he caught Aunt Dahlia's eye and returned to position one.
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。