faute de mieux

短语

[法](=for lack of something better)不得已而求其次

发音

UK /fəʊt də ˈmjɜː/
UK /fɔːt-/
UK /-ˈmjø/
US /foʊt də ˈmjə(ɹ)/
US /-ˈmjʊɹ/

词形变化

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释义与例句

adv.
  1. 1.

    For want of something better; for lack of an alternative; as a makeshift.

    I just married her faute de mieux.

    Then, Alas! any body was company for every body and the first lord of the land did not think it shame, faute de mieux, to take up with the conversation of his butler, or his game-keeper, over a tankard; while the young ladies, faute de tout, danced "Bobbing Joan," with the rest of the domestics in the servants' hall.

词源

Unadapted borrowing from French faute de mieux.

来源：wiktionary