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

• 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。
• 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。
• These may seem quixotic or paradoxical choices, but bear with me.
  这些似乎是不切实际或自相矛盾的选择，但请先容我讲完。
• London did the same when it designated the industrial wasteland around Canary Wharf as a financial hub back in the 1980s. What was ridiculed at the time as a quixotic venture is now one of the world's key financial centers.
  伦敦也曾在上世纪80年代将金丝雀码头（CanaryWharf）附近的工业废弃地规划为一个金融中心。尽管当时被嘲讽为不切实际的冒险，现在这里已经成为全球主要金融中心之一。
• Most of the Washington cognoscenti have written off a potential candidacy as quixotic.
  多数华盛顿观察家都将他参选总统视为一件冲动之举。
• With just a few quixotic tendencies between us, we, Ian and Geoff, rode from Waterloo to Vancouver together last summer.
  去年夏天，怀揣着一点堂吉诃德式的幻想，我们俩，也就是伊恩和杰夫，结伴从沃特卢一路骑车到了温哥华。
• "Quixotic Principle" in Faulkner's Novels
  福克纳小说创作中的吉诃德原则
• Not long ago, selling American cars in Japan was downright quixotic.
  前不久，要在日本出售美国汽车还是一件绝对办不到的事情。
• Manski might seem quixotic in his request that serious policy analysis be presented with more humility, given that neither politicians nor the media have much appetite even for overly-certain serious policy analysis.
  曼斯基主张严肃的政策分析应当表现得更加谦逊，这一点似乎有些异想天开，毕竟无论是政治人物还是媒体，对严肃政策分析都没有多少兴趣，即便这些分析有着过分的确定性。
• A truly quixotic landscape is seen in Salvador Dal í' s 1946 painting The Temptation of St. Anthony ( top right), which depicts a metropolis set upon the backs of animals.
  萨尔瓦多·达利（SalvadorDalí）1946年的油画《圣安东尼的诱惑》（TheTemptationofSt.Anthony，右上）描绘了一个建在动物背上的大都市，那是真正的空想风景。