查询词典 quixotic

Everyone thinks he is a quixotic dreamer, with hopes to one day live in a space station.

每个人都以为他是个不切实际的幻想家，因为他梦想有一天能在太空站生活。

These events buffet the edges of Mr Power's memoir, but its centre is filled with the smells and memories of a quixotic boyhood: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin coming for afternoon tea long before he became the most famous Jesuit priest of the 20th century, Chinese storytellers reciting ancient serials in the street, market stalls smelling of cabbage stalks, aniseed, garlic, soya and oils, and during a visit to the house of a lone Chinese school friend, the memorable sighting of a line of 12 young girls with bound feet, all of them dressed in bright pink gowns buttoned up to the chin.

这些事情在鲍尔先生回忆录的边角激荡，但全书的中心弥漫着唐吉诃德式童年的气息和记忆：德日进来访喝午茶，很久以后他成为了20世纪最著名的耶稣会牧师；中国的说书人在街头巷尾引述古代长篇故事；市集货摊上散发着甘蓝茎球，八角茴香，大蒜，大豆和油类的味道，以及一次赴宅访友之行中见到的12位缠足姑娘，她们各个豆蔻年华，身着扣至下颚的长袍，粉色亮眼，令人怀想。

What follows is a quixotic quest for the recipes that give good countryfolk—and doubtless Mr Barlow—ample waistlines and cheerful characters.

接下来便是堂吉诃德式的探寻：为了找到秘方，使好村民，毫无疑问是像巴罗这样的好村民拥有便便大腹和乐观的性格。

Never before, not even in Velasquez' quixotic portraits of the extended household of the Spanish court, or in the horror of Goya's Disasters of War, had such ugliness been presented without any apparent relation to the nature of the subject and, moreover, seemingly devoid of draughtsmanship or painterly technique.

以前从来没有过，即使在Velasquez唐吉坷德式的关于西班牙宫廷的描绘或是Goya的战争的灾难所展现出的恐怖之中，如此与自然及对象无关的丑陋得以呈现，而且与画师的技巧无关。

In later life, he dedicated himself to a misguided quest for a final unifying theory of physics – a quixotic path also followed by one of his contemporaries, Sir Arthur Eddington.

在晚年，他将全部的时间和精力用于追寻一个终极物理学统一理论，与爱因斯坦同在一个时代的天文学家亚瑟·爱丁顿也追随到了这条堂吉诃德式的科学道路。

When Horace Walpole in his "Preface to the Second Edition" of The Castle of Otranto claimed that his unprecedented literary attempt had been to "blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and the modern," he was conscious of an anomaly with the results of this experimentation: i.e., although the settings and incidents in his narrative would be as quixotic and "unrealistic" as in the "ancient" courtly romance, the characters were supposed to be portrayed according to "realistic" conventions of the newly rising novel, reacting to these fantastic scenarios in such psychologically convincing manners as ordinary people would have done under the same situations.

中文摘要当瓦普在其小说《奥川多城堡》的第二版序言中声称他史无前例的文学创作是尝试要「结合两种传奇故事：固有与现代」时，他已然意识到这种实验所带来的突兀结果；换言之，虽然在叙事中的场景与事件如同「固有」浪漫传奇般天马行空且「不写实」，其中角色却又必须根据新兴小说的「写实」成规加以铺陈，对於身处的奇幻场景的反应必须如一般人面对同样情况时一样，在描绘上得令人信服。

Would this be pointlessly quixotic – or would it be a comfort to know that at least I had tried to do the right thing?

这会是毫无意义的唐吉诃德主义吗？还是一种安慰，让我知道我至少曾试着要做正确的事？

Refusing to carry out orders would not only be pointlessly quixotic , it would be downright stupid .

拒绝服从命令不仅是毫无意义的唐吉诃德主义，而且愚蠢之极。

In her mixed media compositions, Chen Jiao (CAP 2006 Gold prizewinner) argues that aesthetics, not science, constitutes the "real" empiricism; revealing the natural proportions and symmetry in natural and man-made structures. 2006 finalist Ye Hongxing celebrates the aesthetics of fusion in her quixotic portraits, blurring the boundaries between the particular and the composite.

陈皎（2006CAP金奖获得者）的作品多以综合材料为媒介，她认为美学而非科学，构成了真正的实证主义；她善于借助自然及人工建筑物体表现自然的比例与对称性。2006届CAP入围艺术家叶红杏在其堂吉诃德式的自画像中描绘了融合之美，模糊了特性与共性的界限。

These might seem quixotic or paradoxical choices, but please bear with me.

虽然这似乎是一个不切实际或似是而非的选择，但请容许我。

I didn't watch TV last night, because it .

昨晚我没有看电视，因为电视机坏了。

Since this year, in a lot of villages of Beijing, TV of elevator liquid crystal was removed.

今年以来，在北京的很多小区里，电梯液晶电视被撤了下来。