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A recherché subject, idea, word, or taste is uncommon, and someone has chosen it on purpose. Often the quiet point is to look clever or refined — see how much I know, see how fine my taste is. English borrowed the word from French as it is, so it already feels fancy; you meet it in reviews, academic writing, and prose that itself wants to sound . It is not always , but it often comes with a raised : this was picked to impress. Though actually, it can also mean only ‘very carefully sought out,’ without the showing-off tone — the rest of the sentence tells you which. It is a high, rather rare word. Most people will just say rare, obscure, or fancy.
故作高深的;刻意冷僻的
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。
recherchéadj/ɹəˌʃɛɹˈʃeɪ/
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Sought out and chosen with care; choice; exquisite.
- Mangostanes, the recherché fruit of the Straits Settlements, are found in the Islands of Mindanao and Sulu.
- Stevens opened the door and proceeded to bring in a most recherché meal. An omelette was followed by quails and the very lightest things in soufflés.
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Exotic; of rare quality, elegance, attractiveness, etc.
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Precious, pretentious, affected.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:recherché.
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。