bete noire 的定义
plural bêtes noires [beyt -nwahrz; French bet -nwar]. /ˌbeɪt ˈnwɑrz; French bɛt ˈnwar/.
- a person or thing especially disliked or dreaded; bane; bugbear.
bete noire 近义词
detested person
更多bete noire例句
- Brands like Lo & Sons and Delsey are already tapping Travel Noire to connect with black travelers.
- These days, to be featured by Travel Noire on Instagram is like a badge of honor for many black millennial travelers.
- Travel Noire fellows earned about a half million travel miles in 2014.
- For a time Niki Karimi, the actor and director, served as the bête noire of the hardline media.
- The most serious liberal opposition, though, came from the LGBT community, where Hagel was a longtime bête noire.
- I asked the conductor if he had been at the battle; he burst out laughing like a philosopher, as he was, and said "Pas si bete."
- Merimee says of George Sand that he has known her "maigre comme un clou et noire comme une taupe."
- The weather, being practically the bete noire of our existence, came in for a good deal of abuse.
- It had been our bête noire from the time five dollars and fifty cents ransomed it at Shasta.
- Those two strangers, those doctors who arrived at the Tte-Noire last night, have been making experiments already.