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

• 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。
• 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。
• Burma's current trade restrictions are a legacy of nearly total state control of the economy from 1962 to 1988, when Gen Ne Win was pursuing his quixotic Burmese way to Socialism.
  缅甸目前的贸易限制，是1962年至1988年国家几乎完全控制经济的遗留影响。当时，奈温将军（GenNeWin）正在追求他那堂吉诃德式的缅甸社会主义道路。
• 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。
• "Quixotic Principle" in Faulkner's Novels
  福克纳小说创作中的吉诃德原则
• And the fellowship's members do not view global use of Esperanto as a quixotic goal.
  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。
• Monroe once justified her quixotic behaviour with the line:'It is better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.'In my view, she ended up being both.
  她曾替自己过火的行为辩护：“就算愚蠢至极也比无聊至极好。”但笔者认为她两个至极都占了。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。