| 单词 | looking-glass world |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslooking-glass world looking-glass world n. an imaginary place conceived of as being visible in the image shown in a looking-glass, esp. one in which the principles which underpin the real world (as the rules of logic, the laws of physics, etc.) operate differently, or in reverse; also in extended use.Chiefly with reference or allusion to the imaginary world depicted in ‘L. Carroll’ Through the Looking-glass (1871); cf. quot. 1871. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > realm of imagination > [noun] > imaginary place fairyc1330 rumbelow?1515 Hogs Norton?1565 fairyland1600 wonderland1790 other world1804 dreamland1832 Fourth World1833 cloudland1846 Loamshire1859 looking-glass land1871 looking-glass world1871 under-land1874 cloud-world1884 Speewah1890 Ruritania1894 cloud-cuckoo-land1899 cuckoo-land1916 fantasy world1920 Squaresville1956 la-la land1979 1871 ‘L. Carroll’ Through Looking-glass xii. 218 You've been along with me, Kitty—all through the Looking-Glass world. 1880 L. B. Hughes Off the Reel 40 He was thus content to know everything at secondhand in this sort of looking-glass world. 1921 Theosophical Q. Apr. 291 Through the operation of the looking-glass world, the psychical man heaps upon himself dynamic images of the things perceived by his senses. 1963 Daily Tel. 15 Aug. 18/1 It is quite conceivable that there might exist a kind of looking-glass world, in which all matter is made up from anti-matter. 1981 G. L. Glegg Devel. of Design ii. 33 By transporting the real into the looking-glass world the author vividly interprets what happens on this side. 2008 C. Alba Kane's Ladder iv. 35 Sixty pence bought you a weekly ticket into a looking-glass world of culinary psychosis where black was white and white was an unappetising shade of grey. < as lemmas |
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