volte-face

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A reversal of attitude, policy, or principle.
    — Psychoanalysis has sprung many surprises on us, performed more than one volte face before our indignant eyes.
  2. A dramatic change in mood or tone.
    — Shakespeare often used volte-faces in the rhyming couplets at the end of his sonnets.

词形变化

volte-faces plural volte face alternative

词源

Etymology tree
French volte-facebor.
English volte-face
Borrowed from French volte-face.
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