lapalissade

名词 n.
发音 lə-păl'ĭ-sädʹ

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An obvious, self-evident truth, especially humorously so; a tautology or truism.
    — In a certain way our theory is so obvious that it appears to us as a “lapalissade”. The cell is a network of phospholipid membranes and one of their chief functions is to keep certain substrates and enzymes apart.

词形变化

lapalissades plural Lapalissade alternative

词源

From French lapalissade, equivalent to Jacques de la Palice (a French nobleman and military officer) + -ade; see Lapalissian for more.
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