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erewhon

/er-uh-hwon, -hwuhn, -won, -wuhn/US // ˈɛr əˌʰwɒn, -ʰwən, -ˌwɒn, -wən //

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a satirical novel by Samuel Butler.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • The myth above alluded to exists in Erewhon with changed names and considerable modifications.

  • If machinery is detrimental to biological fitness, the machine must be destroyed, as it was in Samuel Butler's "Erewhon."

  • She had not read Erewhon, of course, yet was vaguely aware she had done something wrong.

  • "Erewhon," however, a Utopian romance published in 1872, had by 1899 sold between three and four thousand copies.

  • My father glanced at it, and saw that it was exactly like the one he had worn on entering Erewhon nearly twenty years previously.