bete noire / ˌbeɪt ˈnwɑr; French bɛt ˈnwar /

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bete noire 的定义

n. 名词 noun

plural bêtes noires [beyt -nwahrz; French bet -nwar]. /ˌbeɪt ˈnwɑrz; French bɛt ˈnwar/.

  1. a person or thing especially disliked or dreaded; bane; bugbear.

bete noire 近义词

n. 名词 noun

detested person

更多bete noire例句

  1. Brands like Lo & Sons and Delsey are already tapping Travel Noire to connect with black travelers.
  2. These days, to be featured by Travel Noire on Instagram is like a badge of honor for many black millennial travelers.
  3. Travel Noire fellows earned about a half million travel miles in 2014.
  4. For a time Niki Karimi, the actor and director, served as the bête noire of the hardline media.
  5. The most serious liberal opposition, though, came from the LGBT community, where Hagel was a longtime bête noire.
  6. 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."
  7. Merimee says of George Sand that he has known her "maigre comme un clou et noire comme une taupe."
  8. The weather, being practically the bete noire of our existence, came in for a good deal of abuse.
  9. It had been our bête noire from the time five dollars and fifty cents ransomed it at Shasta.
  10. Those two strangers, those doctors who arrived at the Tte-Noire last night, have been making experiments already.