English Dictionary

nolo episcopari

間投詞

Expressing a facetiously modest refusal of something which is actually desired.

日本語の意味

実際には望んでいるものに対し、冗談交じりに謙虚な拒否（断り）を表現する / 皮肉的な態度で、欲しいものを敢えて否定する表現

When offered the ceremonial ribbon, she laughed and said, nolo episcopari, though her eyes betrayed how much she wanted it.

式典のリボンを差し出されると、彼女は笑って「司教になどなりたくありません」と言ったが、その目はどれほどそれを望んでいるかを物語っていた。

意味（1）

Expressing a facetiously modest refusal of something which is actually desired.

He soon found means to make his addresses, in express terms, to his mistress, from whom he received an answer in the proper form, viz.: the answer which was first made some thousands of years ago, and which hath been handed down by tradition from mother to daughter ever since. If I were to translate this into Latin, I should render it by these two words, Nolo Episcopari: a phrase likewise of immemorial use on another occasion.