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dystopia

/dis-toh-pee-uh/US // dɪsˈtoʊ pi ə //UK // (dɪsˈtəʊpɪə) //

乌托邦,歇斯底里,二十世纪,二十国集团

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.

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Examples

  • In Dave Eggers’ The Every, a follow-up to his 2013 novel The Circle, the tech dystopia that characters navigate bears a strong resemblance to our current reality, dialed up a notch or two.

  • It is still a journey into the future for me, but not a good future, more a dystopia.

  • Before long, however, it descends into dystopia and civil war.

  • His later series Battlestar Galactica was famed for its grim plot twists and serious tone, but Moore would rather you not call that series a dystopia.

  • Compared to other pandemic-inspired dystopias, the rise of the avatar sports fan wasn’t horrible, so much as mildly depressing.

  • Divergent is set in a dystopia and provides a pretty bleak portrait of our future.

  • Five years into the Obama presidency, we are further from the Great Recession but also closer to a new normal—economic dystopia.

  • Or we hear on MSNBC that the Republicans are ideologically blind and fanatical in their pursuit of a Darwinian dystopia.

  • Lurking not far beneath the prettiness lies the real Pagford—a dystopia that would take a wizard to set right.

  • In Tampa, the equivalent trip took you through an Eraserhead dystopia of underpasses and asphalt plains.