enfant terrible

短语

n. (说话行事)使大人难堪的孩子,发奇问而无忌讳之儿童,缺乏责任心的人

发音

US

词形变化

enfants terribles 复数 enfants terribles

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An unconventional badly-behaved person who causes embarrassment or shock to others.

    顽童

    淘气鬼

    He was soon the talk of the town, the enfant terrible of our little world.

  2. 2.

    An unusually successful person who is strikingly unorthodox, innovative, or avant-garde.

  3. 3.

    A wild child.

    废旧

词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

nonconformist recusant

词源

Unadapted borrowing from French enfant terrible (literally “terrible child”).

来源：wiktionary