quixotic
发音
英 [kwɪkˈsɒtɪk]
美 [kwɪkˈsɑːtɪk]
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- adj.
- 堂吉诃德式的，愚侠的，不切实际的
单词词源
quixotic 堂吉诃德式的，异想天开的
来自17 世纪西班牙小说家塞万提斯的骑士讽刺小说《Don Quixote de la Mancha》主角Don Quixote.后成为不切实际想法的代名词。
双语例句
- 1. 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。
- 2. That leaves him with an appreciation of both physical bookstores and e-books , and " a perhaps quixotic hope that they find positive ways to interact . "
- 纸质图书和电子书都给他留下了不错的印象，而且“一个有点狂想的想法是希望他们之间能有积极的方式互动。”
- 3. 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？
- 4. Until recently this mostly quixotic linguistic pursuit born out of a passion for words and grammatical structures lived on little-visited web sites or in college dissertations .
- 这种堂吉诃德式的语言学嗜好，完全是出自对词法和语法结构的狂热，而直到不久前，还只能寄情于无人问津的网站或大学论文之中。
- 5. Europe 's main rescue fund , the european financial stability facility , will issue partial guarantees for new sovereign debt . It will provide seed capital for new financial structures into which europe hopes to tempt sovereign-wealth funds and private investors-hopes that will prove quixotic .
- 欧洲金融稳定基金，作为欧洲主要的援助基金，将对新的主权债务给予部分担保，提供种子资金给新的金融结构，希望以此吸引主权财富基金和私人投资者，这将证明是堂吉诃德式的救援。