épater

épater les bourgeois shock people who have attitudes or views regarded as conventional or complacent.

☞ The French phrase is generally used in English, there being no exact English equivalent. 'Il faut épater les bourgeois' ('one must astonish the bourgeois') was a comment attributed to the French poet and critic Charles Baudelaire.

2008Believer Magazine On and off the water, he was omnipotent and inscrutable, wearing trench coats or top hats down to the beach, shooting rockets off the pier, painting swastikas on his board (less fascist impulse than a last ditch effort to epater les bourgeois).

词组	épater
释义	épater épater les bourgeois shock people who have attitudes or views regarded as conventional or complacent. ☞ The French phrase is generally used in English, there being no exact English equivalent. 'Il faut épater les bourgeois' ('one must astonish the bourgeois') was a comment attributed to the French poet and critic Charles Baudelaire. 2008Believer Magazine On and off the water, he was omnipotent and inscrutable, wearing trench coats or top hats down to the beach, shooting rockets off the pier, painting swastikas on his board (less fascist impulse than a last ditch effort to epater les bourgeois).
随便看	take something amiss take something as read take something by storm take something in good part take something in good part take something into account take something into account (or take account of something) take something in your stride take something lying down take something on board take something or someone by the throat take something to heart take something under advisement take something with a grain of salt take something with a grain of salt take something with a pinch of salt take something with a pinch of salt take something with a pinch (or grain) of salt take steps take stock take stock in take the air take the biscuit take the biscuit (or cake) take the bread out of people's mouths