- 1烏托邦式的、理想化的；空想的、不切實際的（作名詞時指空想家、理想主義者）。留意：實際使用時常帶「太理想、行不通」的批評語氣。
Utopian works two ways. As an adjective it describes anything belonging to, or aiming at, a perfect imagined society: a utopian novel, a utopian community, a utopian vision of the future. As a noun it names a person who believes such a society can be built: 'He was a utopian, and he never stopped believing people could be kind.' The adjective is far more common than the noun. Now the part miss. In real use, 'utopian' is very often a polite criticism. When a journalist that a plan is 'utopian', they usually mean it is beautiful on paper and will not survive contact with real people — too hopeful, ignoring cost, greed, or human weakness. 'A utopian dream' almost always means an impossible one. So the word sits somewhere between admiration and doubt, and the tone of the sentence around it tells you which side it has landed on. Sometimes it is genuinely neutral: 'utopian literature' is simply a category of books, and 'utopian socialism' is a historical label for the early socialists who imagined ideal communities. When it is written with a capital U — Utopian — it usually refers to More's island itself, or its people. should also hold on to the opposite, dystopian, which describes the dark imagined future you see in most modern films.
組成utopia (More's invented 'No-place', from Greek ou 'not' + topos 'place') + -an, an ending that makes 'belonging to' adjectives and 'a person of' nouns. -an reached English through Old French from Latin -ānus — the same ending in American, Roman, republican.
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
Utopiannoun
- 1
fictionliteraturemediaA person from Utopia, a fictional island possessing a seemingly perfect socio-politico-legal system from Thomas More’s 1516 book of the same name.
- As unusual as these official games may appear, they constitute an integral part in teaching the machiavellian tactics which the Utopians proudly use in their foreign wars.
Utopianname
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A constructed language created by Thomas More and Peter Giles for the fictional island Utopia, from Thomas More’s 1516 book of the same name.
utopianadj/juːˈtəʊ.pi.ən/
- 1
Of or pertaining to or resembling a utopia.
- utopian happiness
- The world we lived in was wide, and most of it was open to us with little trouble. Roads, railways, and shipping lines laced it, ready to carry one thousands of miles safely and in comfort. If we wanted to travel more swiftly still, and could afford it, we traveled by airplane. There was no need for anyone to take weapons or even precautions in those days. You could go just as you were to wherever you wished, with nothing to hinder you - other than a lot of forms and regulations. A world so tamed sounds utopian now.
- 2
Ideal but often impractical; visionary.
- a utopian project
- The Great Society was never, in my mind, just a visionary utopian ideal. I considered it a realistic outline of what this nation could achieve in a limited period of time if we marshaled our will and committed our resources.
utopiannoun/juːˈtəʊ.pi.ən/
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Someone who supports or heralds the establishment of a utopia.
- One of our brighter young Utopians, Aldous Huxley, predicts that the movies of the future will include “feelies” and “smellies.”
- Digital utopians have heralded the dawn of an era in which Web 2.0 […] ushers in the democratization of the world: more information, more perspectives, more opinions, more everything, and most of it without filters or fees.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。