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A dystopia is an imagined place, usually in a story, where life has gone badly wrong — cruel rulers, little freedom, or a broken world. It is the dark twin of utopia, a perfect-sounding place.
A dystopia is an imagined place, usually in a storyDystopia是一個想像出來的地方，通常出現在故事裡， where life has gone badly wrong在那裡生活變得非常糟糕—— cruel rulers, little freedom, or a broken world殘暴的統治者、很少的自由、或崩壞的世界 It is the dark twin of utopia它是utopia（烏托邦）的黑暗雙胞胎， a perfect-sounding placeutopia是聽起來很完美的地方
Writers use it as a warning: if we keep going this way, look.
Writers use it as a warning作家用這個詞當作警告： if we keep going this way, look意思是「如果我們繼續這樣下去，看看會怎樣」
Books and films have made the word famous, so people now stretch it: a grim office, a grey housing block, even a miserable group chat may be called “dystopian.” That stretch is common, though actually the core sense is still a whole society imagined as a warning, not just “somewhere I dislike.” You will meet it in reviews, , and school essays about the future.
Books and films have made the word famous書和電影讓這個字變得很有名， so people now stretch it所以人們現在會把它用得更廣： a grim office, a grey housing block, even a miserable group chat may be called "dystopian."陰沉的辦公室、灰暗的社區大樓、甚至一個很慘的群組聊天，都可能被說成「dystopian」。 That stretch is common這種延伸用法很常見， though actually the core sense is still a whole society imagined as a warning, not just "somewhere I dislike."不過其實核心意思還是指整個被想像出來、用來警告世人的社會，而不只是「我不喜歡的地方」。 You will meet it in reviews, politics, and school essays about the future你會在評論、政治、和談未來的學校作文裡遇到這個字
It is a serious, slightly word, not playground talk. The adjective dystopian is even more common than the noun.
It is a serious, slightly bookish word這是個嚴肅、有點書卷氣的字， not playground talk不是操場上隨口說的話 The adjective dystopian is even more common than the noun形容詞dystopian其實比名詞還要常見
組成From dys- + -topia, as if from Ancient Greek dus- (“bad”) + topos (“place”) + -ia. It was built that way because utopia was reread as eu-topia, “good place.”
同家族的字
- utopiadystopia was coined as its dark opposite, after utopia was reread as “good place”
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
dystopianoun/dɪsˈtəʊ.pi.ə/
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A miserable, dysfunctional state or society that has a very poor standard of living or severe censorship, oppression, etc.
- As novelist, he knows, too, that when he sees the future, it will not work—he will automatically be creating a “dystopia” (no one creates utopias any more: even the utopias of the past look like dystopias to us).
- 2. FEAR OF TECHNOLOGY/THE BOMB/THE FUTURE—Progress run amok, either in the form of cybernetic creatures that turn against their masters, or future dystopiae in which society is controlled by technology.
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medicinepathologysciencesAnatomical tissue that is not found in its usual place.
- The patient suffers from adrenal dystopia.
- 2. Dystopiæ of separate organs.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。