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。
• 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。
• "Quixotic Principle" in Faulkner's Novels
  福克纳小说创作中的吉诃德原则
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• In a quixotic manner.
  以唐吉诃德式的方式。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。