aplomb

noun
🔊/əˈplɒm/
🔊/əˈplɑːm/
[uncountable] (formal)
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  1. if somebody does something with aplomb, they do it in a confident and successful way, often in a difficult situation镇定;沉着;泰然自若
    • with considerable/great/remarkable aplomb相当的/十分的/非凡的镇定
    • He delivered the speech with his usual aplomb.他以惯常的沉着语气作了演讲。🔊🔊
    • She concealed the problem with remarkable aplomb.她毫不掩饰地掩饰了这个问题。
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    Word Originlate 18th cent. (in the sense ‘perpendicularity, steadiness’): from French, from à plomb ‘according to a plumb line’.