utopia
utopia 英 [ju:'təʊpɪə] 美 [juˈtopiə]
n. 乌托邦（理想中最美好的社会）；理想国
名词复数:utopias
- Utopia is a perfect paradise that doesn’t exist, but which we all dream of anyway. In the dead of winter, we might imagine a utopia full of palm trees, warm breezes, and sun-soaked beaches.
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- n. 乌托邦（理想中最美好的社会）；理想国
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1. Utopia City
乌托邦之城
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2. But Plato's book is a utopia.
但柏拉图的书的确是乌托邦。
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3. The point isn't that Europe is utopia.
重点并不在于欧洲是一个乌托邦式社会。
- 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). The current (since c. 1960) explanation of Greek ou "not" is an odd one, as it derives the word from the PIE root *aiw- "vital force, life; long life, eternity." Linguists presume a pre-Greek phrase *(ne) hoiu (kwid) "(not on your) life," with ne "not" + *kwid, an "emphasizing particle" [Watkins]. The same pattern is found elsewhere.
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