bête noire

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /bɛt ˈnwɑː/|/beɪt-/    美 /bɛt ˈnwɑɹ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone or something that is unbearable and so particularly avoided or disliked; the bane of someone's existence; an object of aversion; an anathema.
    — [A] petticoated politician was [Napoleon] Bonaparte's bête noire, or antipathy, […]

词形变化

bêtes noires plural

词源

Unadapted borrowing from French bête noire (“(figurative) intolerable person”, literally “black beast”).
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