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。
• 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。
• At worst his scruples must have been quixotic, not malicious ( Louis Auchincloss)
  从最坏的角度来说，他的疑虑肯定是出于一时冲动，而不含恶意（路易斯奥金克洛斯）
• 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。
• In a quixotic manner.
  以唐吉诃德式的方式。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。