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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++quix·ot·ic /kwɪkˈsɒtɪk $ -ˈsɑː-/ adjective  IMPOSSIBLEquixotic ideas or plans are not practical and are based on unreasonable hopes of improving the world 堂吉诃德式的,愚侠()的;不切实际的,空想的 This is a vast, exciting, and perhaps quixotic project. 这是一个庞大、令人兴奋的项目,但可能有点不切实际。
Examples from the Corpus
quixoticThis ended in a quixotic campaign for statehood.So here, thought Dalgliesh, lay the secret of Berowne's quixotic decision to give up his job.Wild eclecticism has been the hallmark of Boyd's 30-year career as record producer, failed film mogul and quixotic entrepreneur.My superior self was on a quixotic errand!But the most startling fact revealed in the survey even had an element of quixotic honour attached to it.Particularly quixotic is their concept of the sources of illegitimacy.He began a quixotic search for the mother who abandoned him.Maureen and Christine understood that theirs was a quixotic task.
Origin quixotic (1700-1800) Don Quixote, main character of the book Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605) by Spanish writer Cervantes
quix·ot·ic adjectiveChineseSyllable
not quixotic Corpus are plans practical or ideas based and are


quixotic
quixotic /kwɪkˈsɒtɪk $ -ˈsɑː-/ adjective
 Date: 1700-1800
 Origin: Don Quixote, main character of the book Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605) by Spanish writer Cervantes
quixotic ideas or plans are not practical and are based on unreasonable hopes of improving the world:
    This is a vast, exciting, and perhaps quixotic project.


quix·ot·icBrE /kwɪkˈsɒtɪk/ 🔊NAmE /kwɪkˈsɑːtɪk/ 🔊 adjective (formal) having or involving ideas or plans that show imagination but are usually not practical 想入非非的;异想天开的;堂吉诃德式的 ORIGIN From the character Don Quixote in the novel by Miguel de Cervantes, whose adventures are a result of him trying to achieve or obtain things that are impossible. 源自米盖尔 · 塞万提斯的作品《堂吉诃德》,其主人公堂吉诃德为了实现不切实际的理想而到处历险。