quixotic

英 [kwɪkˈsɒtɪk]

美 [kwɪkˈsɑːtɪk]

adj.  想入非非的; 异想天开的; 堂吉诃德式的

GRE

BNC.32638 / COCA.21881

牛津词典

adj.

• 想入非非的；异想天开的；堂吉诃德式的
  having or involving ideas or plans that show imagination but are usually not practical

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 堂吉诃德式的;幻想的;不切实际的;空想的
  If you describe someone's ideas or plans asquixotic, you mean that they are imaginative or hopeful but unrealistic.
  1. He has always lived his life by a hopelessly quixotic code of honour.
     他生活中一直遵循一种完全不切实际的堂吉诃德式的道德准则。

英英释义

adj

• not sensible about practical matters
  1. as quixotic as a restoration of medieval knighthood
  2. a romantic disregard for money
  3. a wild-eyed dream of a world state
  Synonym:romanticwild-eyed

双语例句

• It is something of a quixotic mission but is nevertheless notable for at least two reasons.
  这是一项不切实际的任务，但至少有两个原因使它值得关注。
• Or was he backing down from a quixotic effort that he now knows will cost him too much support back home?
  还是准备放弃堂吉诃德式的努力现在他知道，这种努力会让他在国内失去太多的支持？
• China is a Confucian society, a quixotic combination of top-down patriarchy and bottom-up social mobility.
  中国是儒家社会，是自上而下的家长制度与自下而上的社会流动性匪夷所思的结合体。
• It seemed to John as if merely by making this blind quixotic effort he was on the way to insure a happy issue for their love.
  约翰觉得似乎只要这样盲目而为切实际地努力一番就必定能使他们的爱情产生美满的结果。
• And the fellowship's members do not view global use of Esperanto as a quixotic goal. The consensus among the world's scientists is that the world is likely to warm up over the next decades.
  而该联谊会队员并不认为全球采用世界语是一个遥不可及的目标。全世界的科学家一致认为，地球很可能在今后几十年中变暖。
• Mr Murdoch is clearly enthusiastic about his latest, quixotic newspaper war with The New York Times.
  默多克显然对他最近与《纽约时报》（theNewYorkTimes）展开的、堂吉诃德式的报业大战极为热衷。
• These shifts make small, D.I.Y. collectives like Triple Canopy appear more traditional than ever, if not just quixotic a word derived from one of the first novels licensed to a publisher.
  这些变化使得三冠出品的小规模、自助类的选本显得愈加传统，如果不仅是唐吉诃德式的话这个词还源自历史上最早授权给出版商的小说之一。
• That makes an effort by Google, to burrow deep into the leading US research libraries to make digital copies of all the works it can lay its hands on, seem both ambitious and quixotic.
  这让谷歌的一项努力看起来既雄心万丈又不切实际。谷歌对美国顶尖研究图书馆进行深度挖掘，为它能得到的所有著作制作数字副本。
• The US Congress, instead of celebrating the rise of millions to the ranks of the middle class, has embarked on a quixotic adventure to find a culprit for the rise in oil and commodities prices.
  美国国会并没有欢呼数以百万计的人成为中产阶级，相反却开始了一场唐吉诃德式的冒险，试图找出石油和大宗商品价格上涨的罪魁祸首。
• As quixotic as a restoration of medieval knighthood; a romantic disregard for money; a wild-eyed dream of a world state.
  象中世纪骑士精神式的不切实际；对金钱不切实际的漠视；对世界大同的不切实际的梦想。