| 词汇 | science-fiction |
| 释义 | science fiction noun[ U ] uk /ˌsaɪ.əns ˈfɪk.ʃən/ us /ˌsaɪ.əns ˈfɪk.ʃən/(informalsci-fi); (alsoSF) B1 books, films, or cartoons about an imagined future, especially about space travel or other planets: 科幻小说;科幻电影;科幻卡通片 a science-fiction novel/story科幻小说／故事 Types of film, play, book etc. action thriller adaptation Afrofuturism allegorical anime bodice-ripper boy-meets-girl director's cut noir non-documentary non-literary one-shot paean parody period piece potboiler sequel stream of consciousness tragicomedy weepy science fiction | American Dictionaryscience fiction noun[ U ] us/ˈsɑɪ·əns ˈfɪk·ʃən/(short formsci-fi, us/ˈsɑɪˈfɑɪ/) a type of writing about imagined developments in science and their effect on life esp. in the future Examples of science fictionscience fiction More difficult concepts with subjective overtones can be illuminated with the spotlight of sciencefiction. The feeling of estrangement that permeates sciencefiction is bound to the scientific worldview, and the alienating discovery of the new universe. This way of thinking about sciencefiction, as the human versus the non-human, is satisfyingly elegant and transparent. An idea often discussed is the teleportation machine of sciencefiction. The idea that a state, today or ever, could possess and effectively process this level of information is clearly in the realms of sciencefiction. Why distort and indeed mislead public education and discussion by confusing scientific fact and sciencefiction? It is not, like sciencefiction, speculative or utopian. Many players do, however, catch the game's references to forms of cybernetic sciencefiction from the past two decades. This may have been wild fantasy or at best sciencefiction in the opinion of many. The idea of routinely studying undergraduates rather than experts would have been seen as sciencefiction, and not very good sciencefiction at that. Their existence is therefore, by definition, sciencefiction at this time. A fanciful suggestion perhaps, but it is only a short time since a manned journey to the moon was considered to be mere sciencefiction. I agree with them that considering humans as utility maximisers is like entering the world of sciencefiction. In addition, sciencefiction would have remained marginalized were it not for the opening up of the genre to film and television. Does it simply fall silent, or does it emit a loud, high-pitched, non-stop screech evocative of alien invasions in sciencefiction movies? See all examples of science fiction 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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