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

• Refusing to carry out orders would not only be pointlessly quixotic, it would be downright stupid.
  拒绝服从命令不仅是毫无意义的唐吉诃德主义，而且愚蠢之极。
• 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。
• That makes an effort by Google, to burrow deep into the leading US research libraries to make digital copies of all the works it can lay its hands on, seem both ambitious and quixotic.
  这让谷歌的一项努力看起来既雄心万丈又不切实际。谷歌对美国顶尖研究图书馆进行深度挖掘，为它能得到的所有著作制作数字副本。
• 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？
• Not long ago, selling American cars in Japan was downright quixotic.
  前不久，要在日本出售美国汽车还是一件绝对办不到的事情。
• In a quixotic manner.
  以唐吉诃德式的方式。
• It is something of a quixotic mission but is nevertheless notable for at least two reasons.
  这是一项不切实际的任务，但至少有两个原因使它值得关注。
• "Quixotic Principle" in Faulkner's Novels
  福克纳小说创作中的吉诃德原则
• 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。
• The belief in rationality may seem the most quixotic of all, but many elements of the crisis were provoked not by irrational behaviour but by rational responses to perverse incentives.
  对于理性的笃信，或许看上去最不切实际，但触发危机众多要素的并不是非理性行为，而是对不正当激励因素的理性反应。