arrière-pensée

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A mental reservation or ulterior motive.
    — He knew that I had guessed his arrière-pensée, but he let me off for the moment, for which I was thankful; either because he was still ashamed of it, or because he supposed I was reserving myself for the catastrophe,—should it occur.

词形变化

arrière-pensées plural arrières-pensées plural,proscribed

词源

Etymology tree
French arrière-penséebor.
English arrière-pensée
Borrowed from French arrière-pensée.
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