crackpot

英 [ˈkrækpɒt]

美 [ˈkrækpɑːt]

n.  有古怪想法的人; 怪人
adj.  古怪的，离奇的; 不切实际的

复数：crackpots　

BNC.34005 / COCA.22984

牛津词典

noun

• 有古怪想法的人；怪人
  a person with strange or crazy ideas

柯林斯词典

• ADJ (某人或其想法)古怪的，离奇的，不切实际的
  If you describe someone or their ideas ascrackpot, you disapprove of them because you think that their ideas are strange and crazy.
  1. ...a crackpot millionaire.
     性格古怪的百万富翁
  2. ...crackpot schemes.
     不切实际的计划
  3. Acrackpotis a crackpot person.
     怪人;有古怪想法的人
  4. She was no more a crackpot than the rest of us.
     她和我们一样正常。

英英释义

noun

• a whimsically eccentric person
  Synonym:cranknutnut casefruitcakescrewball

双语例句

• Only a crackpot would undertake the task of becoming a man of knowledge of his own accord.
  只有疯子才会心甘情愿地承担成为一个智者的责任。
• N Faces of the Crackpot Club
  怪人俱乐部的N张脸谱
• A crackpot, Graham thought.
  疯子一个，格雷厄姆暗想。
• That crackpot thinks his neighbors are aliens.
  那位疯子认为他的邻居是外星人。
• Until recently, Kaufman was rather a lonely voice calling for equity market reform; indeed many powerful financial participants regarded him as something of a crackpot.
  直到最近，考夫曼在呼吁股市改革方面一直是孤掌难鸣；实际上，许多有实权的金融参与者都视其为疯子。
• Every crackpot in the world writes to him.
  世界上的每个怪人都给他写信。
• Everyone knows Professor Wilkins is a crackpot.
  大家都知道教授是个怪人。
• As operating devices, perpetual-motion machines are the province of crackpot science and science fiction.
  作为工作装置来看，永动机属于科学空想和科学上的杜撰。
• He could tell you a hundred different schemes, all of them crackpot, and all of them had been tried in the Shank at one time or another.
  他可以告诉你一百种不同的越狱方法，每一种都很疯狂，而且肖申克的犯人都尝试过。
• God isn't interested in watching you enact some per-formance of personality in order to comply with some crackpot notion you have about how a spiritual person looks or behaves.
  神没兴趣看你为了符合自己心中认定的心灵相貌或行为而扮演某种人格。