Havishamesque
形容词 adj.
英 /ˌhævɪʃəmˈɛsk/
美 /ˌhævɪʃəmˈɛsk/
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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Stuck in the past; also, refusing to accept change or failure.
— Unlike most historic sites, which tend to ossify into Havishamesque stillness, Chesterwood, the turn-of-the-century home of popular academic sculptor Daniel Chester French, welcomes the fresh breezes of life.
词源
From Havisham + -esque (suffix meaning ‘in the style or manner of’ forming adjectives), after the character Miss Havisham from the novel Great Expectations (1860–1861) by the English author Charles Dickens (1812–1870), a wealthy spinster once jilted at the altar, who lives in a ruined mansion and always wears her wedding dress.
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