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单词 Icarian
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Icarian

/ɪˈkɛːrɪən /
adjective
Relating to or characteristic of Icarus, especially in being excessively ambitious: an Icarian mentality that could only lead to a crash and burn...
  • Poetry's escape, its excess, follows an Icarian path: it drives upwards in a transgressive trajectory only to reach its limits and fall.
  • It is a classic example of our Icarian conceit: the belief that with our resource-depleting technology we can improve on Nature.
  • In another story, Ursula is punished with an Icarian death, a fall into the sea.
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