fin de siècle

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The closing era of any century; (loosely) the end of any era.
    — From these conversations, most of which took place on the condition of anonymity to speak freely, a picture emerged in which America's closest allies are looking on with a kind of stunned incomprehension, unsure of what will happen, what it means, and what they should do, largely bound together with angst and a shared sense, as one influential adviser told me, that America and the West are approaching something of a fin de siècle.
形容词 adj.
  1. Pertaining to the close of the 19th century, usually suggesting a literary and artistic climate of modernism, world-weariness, and self-indulgence. not-comparable
    — The fin-de-siècle phenomenon has, of course, received considerable attention from historians in the recent past—a testament to its appeal. […] They also tend to concentrate on individual as well as social alienation as particularly characteristic of the fin-de-siècle feeling.
  2. Pertaining to the close of the 20th (or any other) century. broadly,not-comparable
    — And, Dag, have you ever noticed that your bungalow looks more like it belongs to a pair of Eisenhower era Allentown, Pennsylvania newlyweds than it does to a fin de siècle existentialist poseur?

词形变化

fin-de-siècle alternative fin de siecle alternative fins de siècle plural fin-de-siècle alternative fin de siecle alternative

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from French fin-de-siècle (literally “end of the century”).
词源 2
Borrowed from French fin-de-siècle (literally “end of the century”).
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