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词汇 fait accompli
释义
Idiom
fait accompli
a decision or action which has already been made or done and which cannot be changed.
The sudden change in policy was presented to the party as a fait accompli, without any consultation.
idiomfait accomplia fait accomplifinish doing sth used about something that has already happened or been done, in order to say that it cannot be changed:You're talking about the next project as if it were a fait accompli. We haven't even asked if we can have the money for it yet.The closure of the factory is probably a fait accompli, but protesters are still making every attempt to stop it.

fait accompli

A decision that has already been made or something that has already been accomplished or completed. The decision by the CEO to close 50 of the company's stores came as a fait accompli to the rest of the management team, who were powerless to stop it. Failing this class is not a fait accompli—you have the ability to study and bring up your grade!

a ˌfait accomˈpli

(from French) something that has already happened or been done and that you cannot change: We got married secretly and then presented our parents with a fait accompli.

fait accompli, a

A deed or action already completed. The term is French for “accomplished action” and was adopted into English in the early nineteenth century. The French critic Nicolas Boileau, exponent of the classical style, may have been one of the first to popularize the term in French, in his treatise L’Art poétique (1674), expounding the classic unities of drama: “Qu’en un lieu, qu’en un jour, un seul fait accompli tienne jusqu’ à la fin le théâtre rempli” (One place, one time, one single action will keep the audience in the theater to the end).
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