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Quixotic ideas or plans are not practical. They grow out of a big, noble hope of making the world better, but they do not fit how the world actually works. A quixotic scheme is not just silly, and it is not just wrong: it is idealistic in a way that ignores cost, power, and likely failure. The word is a little literary. You meet it in essays, reviews, and careful news more than in the playground. It can be fond — we loved his quixotic campaign — or gently critical: a quixotic waste of time. It does not mean crazy, and it does not mean evil. Though actually, English borrowed the feeling from a book character who charged at windmills because he thought they were giants: the hope is brave, and also a bit blind. There is a rare use as a noun for such a person, but almost all real use is the adjective.
不切實際的、堂吉訶德式的
組成From Spanish Quixote — the surname of Don Quixote, the knight in Miguel de Cervantes’ novel — plus -ic, which makes an adjective: “in the manner of Quixote.”
同家族的字
- QuixoteDon Quixote is the impractical, hopeful knight this adjective is named after
原始詞典資料5 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。
quixoticadj/kwɪkˈsɒtɪk/
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Resembling or characteristic of the Spanish chivalric hero Don Quixote; possessed with or resulting from the desire to do noble and romantic deeds, without thought of realism and practicality.
- Olivier, as you know, was quixotic, and would not permit a secret service and spies.
- The message is not subliminal. […] Characters aren’t just quixotic, they cite Cervantes to one another.
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Overly optimistic and moralistic.
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Exceedingly idealistic.
- Call it a brain freeze, another 'Aleppo moment,' or a mere campaign stumble, but Gary Johnson has stumbled again in his quixotic presidential campaign.
quixoticnoun/kwɪkˈsɒtɪk/
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rareA quixotic person or sentiment.
- The cultural quixotics attribute the change to inscrutable "cultural factors," which is tantamount to abandoning altogether the search for explanation.
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。