manque

1 The coin fell on manque, and there he let it lie.

2 In this latter case our theory would not necessarily be manque, but would certainly be seriously incomplete.

3 As artist I rank him very high, not so high as has been the fashion lately, for as a beau dire il manque de style, he lacks style!

4 His was a career manque: he had failed as a man, and it had broken his nerve as an artist.

5 Every fashion designer, they say, is an architect manque, intent on imposing a structure on the wayward human form.

6 If manque gained, he won three louis and lost two; if a number in the last twelve came up, he won four and lost three; but a continuation of zeros would have ruined his calculation.

7 She lacks her husband’s talent for, well, political dexterity, and after so many years at the table of Washington and Wall Street elites she’s hardly persuasive running as Elizabeth Warren manque.

8 Losing no time, I staked another hundred gulden upon the red, and won; two hundred upon the red, and won; four hundred upon the black, and won; eight hundred upon manque, and won.

9 It was a manque version of the hypertheatricality that elevated the band out of scene notoriety to pop ubiquity.

10 Our doctor paints beautiful pictures; I think he's really an artist manque.

我们的一生画得一手好画; 我认为他确实是为失意的艺术家.

11 As for Trump, he is the star of his own newsreel, a preening Mussolini manque whose poll numbers are already falling.

12 An artist manque, she maintains that her particular skill is to recognize and nurture talent.

13 Let manque be faded romances, Be passe remorse and regret; Hearts dance with the wheel as it dances - The wheel of Dame Fortune's roulette.

14 He placed three louis-d'or on the manque, which contains all the numbers to eighteen, and two louis on the last series of twelve; that is, from twenty-four to thirty-six.

15 He looks as if he rather envied poor Mr. Byng, and the not shooting him were a manque d'egards towards him.

16 Philip – a Roth manque – is waiting for the release of his second novel, which is bound to be well received.

17 His entrance is manque; he merely accompanies Cardinal Pole, who takes command of the scene, and Philip does not get in a word till after a long conversation between the Queen and the Cardinal.

18 There is a strain of coarseness in papa; or perhaps I should say—for the impression it leaves is primarily negative, as of something manque—an incompleteness in the sensitive equipment.

19 Upon this I set myself to explain the meaning of all the combinations—of "rouge et noir," of "pair et impair," of "manque et passe," with, lastly, the different values in the system of numbers.

20 This Baltar manque is clearly a pivotal figure but will have to really distance himself from the rather brilliant BSG character, who was selfish and dangerous but also sympathetic and extremely entertaining.

1 未能实现

belie

2 失意

frustrated dejection

3 未成功

miss the mark miss mark

4 落魄

grungy manqué abjection bemean down on luck come down in the world

5 受挫的

broken disappointed

6 没有成功

languish in vain

7 失意的

frustrated

8 壮志未酬的

unfulfilled

9 落魄的

grungy manqué down on luck

10 受挫

broken disappointed disappointedly break thwart balk come to pieces with tail between legs with tail between the legs with the tail between legs come unstuck