英和和英

名詞

qui vive (uncountable)

1. a state of heightened vigilance, especially prior to battle
   • 1836, Oliver Wendell Holmes Qui Vive

     "QUI vive!" The sentry's musket rings,

     The channelled bayonet gleams;

     High o'er him, like a raven's wings

     The broad tri-colored banner flings

     "QUI vive!" The sentry's musket rings,. The channelled bayonet #:gleams; ... "Qui vive!" How oft the midnight air. That startling cry has borne! ...

   • 1917, Grace Ellery Channing, "The Flags of France"

     Qui vive? Who passes by up there?

     Who moves -- what stirs in the startled air?

     What whispers, thrills, exults up there?

     Qui vive?

   • 1920, J[ohn] O[tway] P[ercy] Bland, “[Exhibit G.] Three Palaces.”, in Administration of Immigration Laws: Hearings before the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization: United States House of Representatives, Sixty-sixth Congress, Second Session: […], Washington, D.C.: United States Government Publishing Office, OCLC 19444224, page 373:

     The political influence wielded by many of the court ladies, and especially by the first lady-in-waiting (mother of the present Emperor), bears a certain resemblance to that which the eunuchs wielded under the later Manchus at the court of Peking. [...] And behind the 30 ladies-in-waiting there are the rank and file of female palace attendants, some 300, all of Kyoto stock—quite sufficient to keep any conscientious chamberlain on the qui vive.