aperçu
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aperçu (plural aperçus)
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- 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming Pool Library, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 143
- I insisted on how his opinion mattered, and developed and construed his platitudes into aperçus he was far from entertaining himself.
- 2001, David Brooks, "One Nation, Slightly Divisible", The Atlantic Monthly, December,
- In this place you can go to a year's worth of dinner parties without hearing anyone quote an aperçu he first heard on Charlie Rose.
- 2004, Manohla Dargis, "Do You Hear Sleigh Bells? Nah, Just Tom Hanks and Some Train" (Polar Express movie review), New York Times, 10 November,
- "Every so often a hobo (Mr. Hanks again) materializes to dispense a cryptic aperçu to the boy, maybe because the child is the father of the man or because the film's envelope-pushing gobbled up most of the budget and there was only enough money for one star." -
- 2009, Maureen Dowd, "Dark Dark Dark" (Editorial), New York Times, 21 February,
- President Obama disdains sound bites, and he does not have Bill Clinton’s talent for reducing the abstruse to aperçus.
[edit] French
[edit] Noun
aperçu m. (plural aperçus)
- glance, glimpse
- insight, hint. L’avocat a donné au public un aperçu de la cause. The lawyer gave the public an insight into the case.
- rough estimate. Donnez-moi un aperçu des dépenses que j’aurai à faire. Give me an estimate of the expenses that I would have.
- sketch, outline, summary
- view
- overview Ce que je vous dis là n’est qu’un aperçu de la question. What I say here is an overview of the issue.
- preview. Il y a dans cet ouvrage des aperçus très fins, mais rien n’est développé. There are fine previews in this book, but nothing developed.
[edit] Verb
aperçu
- Past participle of apercevoir.