Definition of dépaysé in English:
dépaysé
(also dépaysée)
adjective deɪˈpeɪzeɪdepeizeˌdāpāˈzā
Removed from one's habitual surroundings.
背井离乡的;脱离熟悉环境的
he was not yet so dépaysé that he had forgotten the language of the village pub
Example sentencesExamples
- It is shocking to become so dépaysé and it is doubtless very demoralizing to live in a country where it is so easy to be Somebody - but it is very agreeable.
- The man of today is beginning to be disoriented with respect to himself, dépaysé, he is outside of his country, thrown into a new circumstance that is like a terra incognita.
- Po Chü-i was as much dépaysé at a provincial town as Charles Lamb would have been at Botany Bay.
Origin
French, '(removed) from one's own country'.