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Manqué sits after a job-word and means someone who might have been that thing — a poet, a painter, a chef — but never quite became one. A poet manqué may have the wish, or even some talent, but not the life that followed. It often carries a little sadness, and sometimes a little joke, as if the speaker is being kind about a dream that stayed a dream. It is French, used in fairly educated English, and it is not a word you throw into the shops. Though actually, it does not mean the person was a failure at everything; it means this one path was not taken, or not finished. You say a writer manqué, not a manqué writer.
未能如願的、未遂的（放在職業名詞後面：a poet manqué）
組成Borrowed from French manqué, the past participle of manquer, “to lack, to be lacking in.” Used in English since the eighteenth century.
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。
manquéadj/ˈmɒŋkeɪ/
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Unfulfilled due to the vagary of circumstance, some inherent flaw or a constitutional lack.
- “[…] and all things considered, I don't much regret that this affair with Miss Amory is manquée, though I wished for it once—in fact, all things considered, I am very glad of it.”
- The rivals now were but rival nurses; and never did a lot of women make more fuss over a child than all these bloodthirsty men did over this Amazon manquée.
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。