| 单词 | brave new world |
| 释义 | brave new worldsingular noun If someone refers to a brave new world, they are talking about a situation or system that has recently been created and that people think will be successful and fair. ...the brave new world of internet banking. [+ of] brave new world in British English (breɪv njuː wɜːld) noun used, sometimes ironically, to refer to a new and optimistic situation resulting from major societal or technological changes the brave new world of fully interactive television Little more than 12 months ago such high-science concepts were regarded as the frontiersof a brave new world. brave new world in American English a place or situation regarded as like that of a hypothetical future society in being variously dehumanized, disorienting, technologically revolutionary, etc. Word origin after Brave New World, title of dystopian novel (1932) by A. Huxley , an allusion to a line in The Tempest (V, i) by Shakespeare |
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