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Utopian Utopia Vision Describe Societies Ideal Perfect Government

英语单词 utopian
英美音标 英 [juː'təʊpiən] 美 [juː'toʊpiən]
中文释义 adj.乌托邦式的;梦想的
n.空想家
英语例句 (1) Much of early American family life took place within communal or Utopian societies.
(2) As with most art movements that begin with manifestos, the Bauhaus school had a Utopian element.
(3) If we are wrong, Jesus of Nazareth was merely a Utopian dreamer who never came down to earth.
中文例句 (1) 早期美国家庭生活主要产生于村社或乌托邦式社会。
(2) 正如大部分的艺术运动都始于某些宣言一样,包豪斯学派也有着乌托邦式的色彩。
(3) 如果我们是错的,耶稣基督只不过是一个从未涉足地球的乌托邦空想家。
vocabulary简明 If you're looking to relocate to a utopia, good luck! A utopia is an ideal society, and a scheme or vision for producing such a society can be called utopian.
vocabulary扩展 In 1516, the English philosopher Thomas More published Utopia, a book about an island nation with the perfect form of government. This novel gave us the adjective utopian, which can be used to describe plans for or works of fiction depicting ideal societies. Dystopian literature, by contrast, describes nightmarishly repressive worlds. It's ironic that More himself may have conceived of his Utopia as a dystopia, or at least a satire. The name of More's novel is anglicized Greek for "no place" — which makes a lot of sense if you think about it.
柯林斯解释
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[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词](计划、想法)空想的,不切实际的 If you describe a plan or idea as utopian, you are criticizing it because it is unrealistic and shows a belief that things can be improved much more than is possible.
  [disapproval]
  • He was pursuing a utopian dream of world prosperity...

    他怀揣着一个实现世界繁荣的乌托邦之梦。

  • A complete absence of national border controls is as utopian today as the vision of world government.

    在今天,完全取消国家边界控制的观点与建立一个世界政府的想法一样不切实际。

  • A utopian is someone with utopian ideas.空想家
    • Kennedy had no time for lost causes or famous failures, no patience with dreamers or liberal utopians.

      肯尼迪无暇在那些毫无前途的事业或出了名的失败事例上劳神费心,也没有耐心去应付梦想家或自由主义空想家。

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[ADJ 形容词](政治或宗教思想)空想的,乌托邦式的 Utopian is used to describe political or religious philosophies which claim that it is possible to build a new and perfect society in which everyone is happy.
  [usu ADJ n]
  [FORMAL 正式]
  • His was a utopian vision of nature in its purest form.

    他对大自然怀有一种极为纯粹的乌托邦式看法。

  • A utopian is someone with utopian beliefs.空想家
    • ...a group of utopians who immigrated in the 1920s and '30s.

      20世纪20年代和30年代移民而来的一群空想家

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