| 单词 | through-the-looking-glass |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthrough-the-looking-glass C2. attributive. Designating something which is or involves the opposite of what is normal or expected, or which appears to be confused, illogical, or nonsensical. Sometimes more fully through-the-looking-glass.Chiefly with reference or allusion to ‘L. Carroll’ Through the Looking Glass (1871). Cf. looking-glass world n. at Compounds 3. ΚΠ [1871 [see looking-glass world n. at Compounds 3]. ] 1879 Vick's Monthly Mag. Mar. 80/1 The continent is in many respects what you might call a looking-glass country—for everything seems to be reversed in it. 1927 Foreign Affairs Aug. 38/1 It seems rather like looking-glass politics to get together men whose whole business it is to make each his own country materially as strong as he can in lethal weapons of every conceivable variety of destructiveness, and to hope anything like disarmament will come out of such a meeting. 1979 G. Chesbro Affair of Sorcerers (1988) 55 It's looking-glass ethics: the search for a kind of salvation through evil. 1983 G. D. Best H. Hoover, Postpresidential Years II. ix. 282 Too much of what was happening in Washington had a through-the-looking glass quality that defied understanding. 2007 N.Y. Mag. 19 Feb. 42/2 Something dreadfully amiss is going on at the ACLU... I'm thinking, We're in looking-glass territory. That's just so wrong it's mind-boggling. < as lemmas |
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