| 单词 | jeu d'esprit |
| 例句 | It is both solemn and jaunty, this little jeu d'esprit, as if to say that we're all in this together. Death: A Self-Portrait – review 2012-11-11T00:05:30Z Thus it is that unlike Polanski, directors like Marc Webb, who've cut their teeth on a jeu d'esprit like 500 Days of Summer but want to get on, find themselves entangled in franchise-land. Why we are happy to be caught in a web of movie remakes 2012-07-10T08:48:56Z "Quite a jeu d'esprit!" exclaimed Rebecca, laughing gaily. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z But the thing is essentially a pot-boiler and a jeu d'esprit. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z This jeu d'esprit, which was published by the London Committee, was circulated by thousands, and proved extremely useful in bringing the burning question home in an attractive form to the masses of the nation. The Romance of Industry and Invention 2011-12-19T03:00:43.870Z This woman's hysterical imagination turned a mere jeu d'esprit of her old friend into a formidable weapon of attack against her new lover. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z Then turn from the shadow of that scene to the shimmer of the one that follows immediately, full of smartness and jeu d'esprit. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z The attempt of Stanley Jevons to explain economic crises by sun-spots, so far from being an effort of genius, is simply a jeu d'esprit. Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive 2011-11-19T03:00:28.253Z It is merely a fact of common knowledge put into the form of a misleading jeu d'esprit, though one has a natural reluctance in so describing a time-honoured saying. Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z The following jeu d'esprit is peculiarly in character with Dr. Franklin. The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers 2011-06-15T02:00:17.903Z In the same year he printed Transallegania, a poetical jeu d'esprit of which mineralogy is the subject, and which preceded some clever English attempts in the same vein. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:14.897Z "Ah! she beats us all to-day," remarks the ancient toast of Cheltenham, "in being late," she adds, with a laugh at her little jeu d'esprit. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z A sort of jeu d'esprit went round to their friends, thanking them for past favours, and asking for a continuance on a smaller scale. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z One facetious young man in the "commercial line" had dubbed her "the body-snatcher," and, being inordinately proud of his jeu d'esprit, he had worn it threadbare, and Miss Wangle had got to know of it. Patricia Brent, Spinster At Scotland Yard he was known as "Sage and Onions," the feebleness of the jeu d'esprit being to some extent mitigated by the venom with which it was uttered. John Dene of Toronto A Comedy of Whitehall Reed, and Fields have issued a reprint of this celebrated jeu d'esprit, which still retains its popularity, together with the Rejected Addresses, to which it forms an appropriate companion. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. But the ex-poacher is not yet prepared to enact the r�le of Samson; and however galling the jeu d'esprit of the priest, he swallows it without showing chagrin, far less speaking it. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z Mr. Campbell exhibits both ingenuity and metrical ability in this facile jeu d'esprit. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 This jeu d'esprit, flying about Westminster Hall, reached the Chancellor, who was very much amused with it, notwithstanding the allusion to his doubting propensity. Law and Laughter But the jeu d'esprit kept echoing oddly through Morgan's brain. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real Roland to Mme. de Staël, kept pace with any number of interlocutors on any number of subjects, from the most abstruse science to the lightest jeu d'esprit. Conversation What to Say and How to Say it It was a mere jeu d'esprit, a specimen of his humorous journalism, elaborated from the St James's Gazette. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" In course of animated speech Lord Bob delighted House by equalling, if not going one better than, the late Lord Cross's historic jeu d'esprit. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 24, 1914 Charles Dickens was among those who most admired the execution of the jeu d'esprit, and he displayed considerable interest in the writer. The History of "Punch" Again she laughed immoderately at the recollection of this brilliant jeu d'esprit and her admirer's discomfiture. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real It is possible that Murray did not take the "Dedication" seriously, but regarded it as a jeu d'esprit, designed for the amusement of himself and his "synod." The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 She talks to me without restraint, and at times most engagingly, but seldom, if ever, does she give utterance in my hearing to a jeu d'esprit that I feel called upon to repeat to others. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-11-17 The most varied accounts have been given of the origin of this jeu d'esprit; and even Garrick's, which was meant to supersede and correct all others, is self-contradictory. Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series The jeu d'esprit is to be found on p. The History of "Punch" Fiction, you know, is the native region of poetry; and I hope you will pardon my vanity in sending you the bagatelle as a tolerable offhand jeu d'esprit. Robert Burns How To Know Him Possibly he was away in Germany at the time when this jeu d'esprit was invented. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 14, 1917 Everybody," he said, ignoring my jeu d'esprit, "feels like a fish out of water, and discontent is rife. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-11-17 An exquisite jeu d'esprit has been crushed to death: What slender youth, bedew'd with liquid odours, Courts thee on roses in some pleasant cave, Pyrrha? Horace and His Influence A ridiculous story is told of a custom amongst the inhabitants of a province named Blida, which I should not repeat but for its whimsical coincidence with a jeu d'esprit of our celebrated Swift. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants The eldest son of William Macready, the actor, was confined to the house by illness, and Browning wrote this jeu d'esprit to amuse the boy and to give him a subject for illustrative drawings. Browning's Shorter Poems It was a jeu d'esprit of Henry B. Stanton, "That when Boston votes we go into a stable, but when the State votes we go into the State House." William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist But Napoleon and Max Müller have each been treated as sun-myths, and Senart's essay is as convincing as either jeu d'esprit. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow However, the jeu d'esprit is well worth the chandelle. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, July 4, 1891 Only a trifle, though, i' faith, 'tis smart, A jeu d'esprit, not art concealing art, Fruition of a moment's fantasy, Mere mental bubbles, verbal filagree. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, July 25, 1891 To this jeu d'esprit James contributed among others imitations of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Crabbe, while Horace's share included Scott and Moore. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature One day I promised to surprise her with a musical jeu d'esprit, which should have a reference to our mutual attachment. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 490, May 21, 1831 We should not do justice to our Scottish Reminiscences of judges and lawyers, if we omitted the once celebrated Court of Session jeu d'esprit called the "Diamond Beetle Case." Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Tennyson has a poem called Amphion, a skit and rhyming jeu d'esprit. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook An old Subscriber has sent us the following questions on the improvement of the metropolis, which we insert as a castle-building jeu d'esprit rather than as a serious matter. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 329, August 30, 1828 It has been determined to-day to get up a periodical sheet, or jeu d'esprit newspaper, to be circulated from family to family, commencing on the first of January. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers And in her pages there should be A wealth of prose and verse, With now and then a jeu d'esprit,— But nothing ever worse! A Little Book of Western Verse Nor is this criticism a mere jeu d'esprit; it is hard to resist the conclusion that the author is putting his own views into the mouths of his more than shady characters. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Locksley seemed to regard the Trust as a huge joke, and its prospectus as a literary jeu d'esprit. The Politeness of Princes and Other School Stories Salmagundi was only a lively jeu d'esprit, and Irving was never proud of it. Literary and Social Essays His mother, the Duchess of Orleans, expressed his character in a jeu d'esprit. The Crayon Papers This rage for academic correctness is responsible for the reputation, not merited by Hebrew literature, that it lacks originality, that it is no more than a jeu d'esprit, a jumble of quibbling conceits. The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) As a jeu d'esprit the book might pass; but it is deadly serious. Old Calabria Why no, not exactly that, perhaps, at present; we must feel our way, with some little smart jeu d'esprit before we undertake a great work. Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 3 Written in half the time Ibsen usually devoted to a play, it is an outburst of humorous indignation, a jeu d'esprit, one might almost say, though the jeu of a giant esprit. Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship One jeu d'esprit more, and Smith hastened to take possession of his living, and to enter upon duties of which no one better knew the mighty importance than he did. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 2 That so grave and serious a critic as Leslie Stephen should have taken such delight in a jeu d'esprit like Idlers, is proof, if any were needed, for the breadth of his literary outlook. Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson I imagine that the original story that attracted Mr. Curzon was more jeu d'esprit than anything else; but that the author, finding what a stone he had set rolling, did not venture to retract. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 We have not met with it; but we apprehend, from title and date, that it is a jeu d'esprit, founded upon the recent appointment. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 Yousef's poetry must be looked upon merely as a jeu d'esprit suggested by the beauties of the vale of Bozâa, as he passed through it. Oriental Literature The Literature of Arabia Fielding's knowledge of legal forms and phraseology enabled him to make a happy parody of court procedure, and Mr. Lawrence says that this particular "jeu d'esprit obtained great celebrity." Fielding The most successful jeu d'esprit of modern times, having survived the occasion that suggested it for nearly half a century, and still being highly popular. The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe A Trial in the Court of Vowels, a jeu d'esprit. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 Many years ago he invented a frivolity, a jeu d'esprit easily forgivable to an artist in the heyday of his youth, to whom his art was new and even perhaps wonderful. Tales of War A small satirical or political temporary jeu d'esprit, which, like the firework of that denomination, sparkles, bounces, stinks, and vanishes. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue In a spirit of jeu d'esprit I had had made a globular representation of a "rolling stone." Rolling Stones The former is a mere jeu d'esprit, in which, with an orchestral basis of two violins and a bass, the solo instruments are all of a burlesque character. Haydn The derivation because it ruins man's property and wounds his honour is the jeu d'esprit of a moralising grammarian. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 Buckland, I think, once indulged in the jeu d'esprit of supposing an ichthyosaur lecturing on the human skull. A journey in other worlds A romance of the future For a jeu d'esprit of that kind it is too long; it would have suited better as an essay or article than as a volume. Sartor Resartus: the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh |
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