sous-
prefix
- (in words adopted from French) subordinate［用于从法语吸收的词语］ 表示“助理的”, “级别低的”：
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sous-chef.
词源
from French sous 'under'.
1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 10144Þe sousprior of hor hous þe monekes chose echon.
1426 Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 22237,I am Sowcelerere Off this place, and Pytauncere.
1687 A. Lovell tr. Thevenot'sTrav. i. 279The Officer whom in Turky they call the *Sous-basha.
1825–40 F. Burney Jrnls. &Lett. (1980) VIII. 49M. d'Arblay continued in his humbler office, of *sous chef to one of the Bureaux de l'Interieur.
1902 A. Bennett Grand Babylon Hotel xxi. 238We have found in our second sous-chef an artist.
1973 New Society 15 Nov. 412/2, I gradually pieced together the hierarchy. After the chef..came Jacko, the sous-chef.
1980 N. Freeling Castang's City i. 1Lasserre was a Commissaire... He was the sous-chef, the Chief of Staff.
1841 Lever C. O'Malley 1. 267,I was two days ago, chasseur à cheval, a *sous-lieutenant in the regiment of my father.
1855 Chamb. Jrnl. 24 Feb. 113/1This Lord Milton was the acting *sous-ministre for Scotland in the administration of Walpole.
1826 H. D. Beste FourYrs. France 318He engaged a *sous-officier to come daily to the house to teach him the manual exercise.
1895 E. Dowson Let. 2 Oct. (1967) 316Owing to a great demand for lodgings by officiers and sous-officiers, we found it..impossible to find what we wanted.
1972 G. Bell Villains Galore vi. 68He had been a sous-officier in the Legion. [ Foreign]
1889 Gunter That Frenchman xvii. 215The imperial guardsman and *sous-prefect of the secret police.
1940 J. Joyce Let. 16 Sept. (1966) III. 487Our applications..passed through the *sous-préfecture of this department this morning.
1976 N. Freeling Lake Isle viii. 43Soulay was a sous-préfecture, and sub-prefects are small beer.
1865 L. Booth in S. Pakenham Sixty Miles from England (1967) v. 67Etiquette expects yearly residents to leave cards on the *Sous-Préfet.
1944 H. Nicolson Let. 27 June (1967) 382They went to the souspréfecture. The sous-préfet..had been secretary to Pucheu.
1974 E. Ambler Dr Frigo iii. 186The sous-Préfet assured me of his most distinguished sentiments.
sous-
ORIGIN: Old French & Modern French sous , from Latin subtus under.