| 单词 | dystopian |
| 释义 | dystopian (once / 68717 pages) adj "Utopian" describes a society that's conceived to be perfect. Dystopian is the exact opposite — it describes an imaginary society that is as dehumanizing and as unpleasant as possible. George Orwell's "Animal Farm," for example, describes a dystopian society in which Napoleon, a pig, represents Joseph Stalin in a farmyard satire on Stalinist Russia and how power corrupts. Other famous dystopian authors include Aldous Huxley, Kurt Vonnegut, and Ray Bradbury. The adjective dystopian describes anything that pertains to or resembles a society such as those described in this sort of literature. WORD FAMILYdystopia: dystopian, dystopias USAGE EXAMPLESYes, we are really living in a dystopian future where we can’t be sure of what is true and what isn’t. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) This was a year in which vulgarity, divisiveness and exclusion won – a triumph for dystopian visions of race, nation and ethnicity. The Guardian(Dec 30, 2016) Free for the first time in 20 years, he was living on Los Angeles Skid Row, a dystopian dead end where drugs are used openly. Washington Times(Dec 28, 2016) 1adj of or pertaining to or resembling a dystopia 2adj as bad as can be; characterized by human misery "AIDS is one of the dystopian harbingers of the global villages"- Susan Sontag Ant utopian characterized by or aspiring to impracticable perfection perfectbeing complete of its kind and without defect or blemish Laputan, airy, impractical, visionary, windynot practical or realizable; speculative |
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