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bete noire

/beyt -nwahr; French bet -nwar/US // ˌbeɪt ˈnwɑr; French bɛt ˈnwar //

黑手党,黑人,红颜祸水,黑马

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

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

    • : a person or thing especially disliked or dreaded; bane; bugbear.

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  • 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.