mal du siècle

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Apathy and world-weariness, involving pessimism towards the current state of the world, often along with nostalgia for the past, originally in the context of French Romanticism; Weltschmerz. uncountable
    — A fashion prevailed in France, a generation or two ago, — originating, perhaps, in the vogue of Réné^([sic – meaning René]), — of calling this atrophy of the spirit by the special misnomer of the mal du siècle. In truth, it is a malady of all the ages, raging, like other plagues, with greater virulence in some, hut reappearing continually, — sporadic here, and epidemic there;[…]

词源

Borrowed from French mal du siècle (literally “disease of the century”).
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