utopia

英 [ju:'t?upi?] 美

CET6GRE低頻詞暢通詞匯

復數(shù):?utopias;

1. u- (ou "not, no") + top- "place" + -ia. 字面含義為：不存在的地方。
2. 同源詞：topography, topology, toponym.
3. 音譯“烏托邦”。

utopia 烏托邦

來自希臘語ou, 無，topos,地方，詞源同topic,topography.由英國15世紀社會主義學家Thomas More所創(chuàng)。

utopia: utopia: [16] Utopia means etymologically ‘noplace’. It was coined by the English statesman and scholar Sir Thomas More from Greek ou ‘not’ and tópos ‘place’ (source of English topic). He used it as the name of an imaginary island whose inhabitants had organized their society along the lines of what he regarded as a theoretically ideal commonwealth, which he described in his book Utopia 1516. The word was first used as a more general term for an ‘ideal place’ in the early 17th century.
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utopia (n.): 1551, from Modern Latin Utopia, literally "nowhere," coined by Thomas More (and used as title of his book, 1516, about an imaginary island enjoying the utmost perfection in legal, social, and political systems), from Greek ou "not" + topos "place" (see topos). Extended to any perfect place by 1610s. Commonly, but incorrectly, taken as from Greek eu- "good" (see eu-) an error reinforced by the introduction of dystopia.

1. Sir Thomas More is remembered today as the author of Utopia.: 當今,托馬斯·莫爾先生還被銘記為《烏托邦》的作者.

2. She was entering the masses with the phantom of a future Utopia.: 她正用未來的烏托邦幻想來吸引群眾.

3. His Utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists.: 他的烏托邦不是空想的聯(lián)邦,而是對那些已經(jīng)存在的聯(lián)邦事實上的改進.

5. Shangri - La was the name of James Hilton's Tibetan Utopia.: 《香格里拉》是詹姆斯·希爾頓寫的西藏烏托邦一書的書名.