aperçu
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aperçu (plural aperçus)
- A clever insight.
- 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.
- 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming Pool Library, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 143
- A summary or outline; words that summarize.
Translations [edit]
clever insight
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summary
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French [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /apɛʁsy/
Noun [edit]
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.
- L’avocat a donné au public un aperçu de la cause.
- rough estimate.
- Donnez-moi un aperçu des dépenses que j’aurai à faire.
- Give me an estimate of the expenses that I would have.
- Donnez-moi un aperçu des dépenses que j’aurai à faire.
- 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.
- Ce que je vous dis là n’est qu’un aperçu de la question.
- 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.
- Il y a dans cet ouvrage des aperçus très fins, mais rien n’est développé.
Verb [edit]
aperçu m (feminine aperçue, masculine plural aperçus, feminine plural aperçues)
- Past participle of apercevoir
