单词 | quixote-like |
释义 | > as lemmasˈQuixote-like ˈQuixote-like adj. ΚΠ 1659 R. Heath Paradox. Assertions 24 My discourse may seem Quixot-like, to overthrow Cities, depopulate Countries, and threaten all their ruines. 1769 Another Estimate Manners & Princ. Present Times 90 That passion for romantic Love, and Quixote-like adventure, so discoverable among young men and women. 1860 M. Collins Summer Songs 11 Fresh he comes..From all the Quixote-like Bohemian life which painters know. 1973 Hispanic Amer. Hist. Rev. 53 362 Latin Americans see in this novel a kind of Quixote-like spirit. 2001 N. Birnbaum After Progress 237 Its Quixote-like attack on a monstrous inflation totally undiscernible in the economic statistics. < as lemmas |
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