| 词汇 | quixotic |
| 释义 | quixotic adjective literaryuk /kwɪkˈsɒt.ɪk/ us /kwɪkˈsɑː.t̬ɪk/ having or showing ideas that are different and unusual but not practical or likely to succeed: 不切实际的，异想天开的 This is a vast, exciting and some say quixotic project.这是一个宏大而激动人心的、甚至有人认为是异想天开的项目。 Useless and futile adrift aimless aimlessly aimlessness airy-fairy fruitless fruitlessly fruitlessness futile futilely negate negation no goodidiom non-viable nugatory unrealistic unrealistically unseriousness until you are blue in the faceidiom unviability Related wordquixotically quixotic | American Dictionaryquixotic adjective us/kwɪkˈsɑt̬·ɪk/ literature having intentions or ideas that are admirable but not practical: Many think these attempts to make lawyers behave are quixotic. Examples of quixoticquixotic To suggest that the record company will simply dissolve because of online delivery is quixotic. At the same time, he acknowledges the quixotic nature of an idea that is 'a kind of rearguard response to the commodification of architecture'. But it was hard to love the following 17-minute manipulation of synthesised drum-kit patterns, and the project felt self-absorbed and quixotic. The honour of banners and rhetoric and quixotic courage was real and often useful, but it was not central to the practice of soldier's honour. Parole seems at first sight a highly chivalric, even quixotic, institution. Capturing this acceptably well by using crosssectional data aggregated by provinces is a quixotic quest, and can never yield more than very crude results. One date, however, proves quixotic in this respect. Yet, due to its typically quixotic and spontaneous nature, play is hard to document systematically. Yet to try to establish what ' really happened ', and distinguish this from the ' mythical ' past, is a quixotic exercise. Conservatives ' ' were increasingly cognizant, ' ' he says, ' ' of the need to avoid either quixotic antistatism or morose authoritarianism if their movement was to capture national power and respect. In view of this complexity, it would surely be quixotic to look for a very simple explanation of the cross-national patterns of wage inequality described above. I know that this is a hopeless, quixotic, endeavour. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 And yet, from this quixotic, covert, inequitable creature—be he conciliator or adjudicator—there is no right of appeal. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I very much regret that some authorities take quixotic and occasionally damaging decisions when exercising that discretion, but that is not my responsibility. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The responsibilities for success or failure are far too grave and far-reaching to permit quixotic gestures for their own sake. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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