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单词 Alice-in-Wonderland
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Definition of Alice-in-Wonderland in English:

Alice-in-Wonderland

adjective
  • Completely bizarre, illogical, or fantastic.

    this Alice-in-Wonderland economic system
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The proponents of today's Alice-in-Wonderland global economy, however, wanted the Federal Trade Commission to proclaim that ‘Made in the USA’ could also mean ‘Not Made in the USA.’
    • I suppose that this shows up how physical, Newtonian stuff can lead you quite logically to the Alice-in-Wonderland world of relativity and quantum physics.
    • It could be symbolic of the Alice-in-Wonderland feeling of this conference, where the future of the world trading system is being decided in a country that is itself poised between two worlds of development.
    • What an Alice-in-Wonderland world we inhabit.
    • Then there's the serene, green, Charlotte Lake where we once spent a long, Alice-in-Wonderland, afternoon.
    • In the best Alice-in-Wonderland tradition of Korean chaebol, the company has big, big expansion plans for the immediate future.
    • If I want to go into the underpaid, Alice-in-Wonderland world of academic teaching and research, a PhD is vital.
    • The race for rankings has an Alice-in-Wonderland quality about it: everybody is running as fast as they can to stay in the same place-and they spend an awful lot of resources to achieve this stagnant outcome.
    • She did not consider investigating abnormal psychology, where she would find many similar cases of Alice-in-Wonderland voyagers.
    • In one telegram, I describe the Alice-in-Wonderland quality of a meeting with him in which I tried to persuade him to cleanse the security forces of their worst offenders.
    • That's the mark of a dictatorship, not a democracy, and a particularly Alice-in-Wonderland kind of place at that.
    • Her meticulously detailed and fanciful descriptions of ordinary ingredients transported me to an Alice-in-Wonderland tea-party reverie.
    • The legislature are apparently willing to collaborate with the governor in his Alice-in-Wonderland venture in linguistic manipulation, all of course for the public good.
    • They do have the right Alice-in-Wonderland perspective, the naive good sense that frames the irrationalities around them.
    • Those who still cling to the Alice-in-Wonderland fantasy that there's nothing really wrong with our system need to meet Alexandra and Hannah Wallin.
    • When we started the Web site two years ago, it was an Alice-in-Wonderland thing.
    • Nate peers at the ground beyond his magnifying glass, the portal to this Alice-in-Wonderland world.
    • But, in this Alice-in-Wonderland world, that was entirely consistent and honourable.
    • It's Alice-in-Wonderland territory, as Old Right parties and pundits everywhere disintegrate under the inherent contradictions that always existed between social conservatism and economic radicalism.
    • The Government decides to play Alice-in-Wonderland croquet with its humanitarian obligations.

Origin

See Carroll, Lewis.

 
 

Definition of Alice-in-Wonderland in US English:

Alice-in-Wonderland

adjectiveˌaləsənˈwəndərland
  • attributive Not logically explicable or predictable.

    this Alice-in-Wonderland economic system
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In one telegram, I describe the Alice-in-Wonderland quality of a meeting with him in which I tried to persuade him to cleanse the security forces of their worst offenders.
    • If I want to go into the underpaid, Alice-in-Wonderland world of academic teaching and research, a PhD is vital.
    • The race for rankings has an Alice-in-Wonderland quality about it: everybody is running as fast as they can to stay in the same place-and they spend an awful lot of resources to achieve this stagnant outcome.
    • The Government decides to play Alice-in-Wonderland croquet with its humanitarian obligations.
    • Those who still cling to the Alice-in-Wonderland fantasy that there's nothing really wrong with our system need to meet Alexandra and Hannah Wallin.
    • The proponents of today's Alice-in-Wonderland global economy, however, wanted the Federal Trade Commission to proclaim that ‘Made in the USA’ could also mean ‘Not Made in the USA.’
    • That's the mark of a dictatorship, not a democracy, and a particularly Alice-in-Wonderland kind of place at that.
    • But, in this Alice-in-Wonderland world, that was entirely consistent and honourable.
    • It's Alice-in-Wonderland territory, as Old Right parties and pundits everywhere disintegrate under the inherent contradictions that always existed between social conservatism and economic radicalism.
    • She did not consider investigating abnormal psychology, where she would find many similar cases of Alice-in-Wonderland voyagers.
    • Her meticulously detailed and fanciful descriptions of ordinary ingredients transported me to an Alice-in-Wonderland tea-party reverie.
    • When we started the Web site two years ago, it was an Alice-in-Wonderland thing.
    • I suppose that this shows up how physical, Newtonian stuff can lead you quite logically to the Alice-in-Wonderland world of relativity and quantum physics.
    • Nate peers at the ground beyond his magnifying glass, the portal to this Alice-in-Wonderland world.
    • It could be symbolic of the Alice-in-Wonderland feeling of this conference, where the future of the world trading system is being decided in a country that is itself poised between two worlds of development.
    • In the best Alice-in-Wonderland tradition of Korean chaebol, the company has big, big expansion plans for the immediate future.
    • They do have the right Alice-in-Wonderland perspective, the naive good sense that frames the irrationalities around them.
    • Then there's the serene, green, Charlotte Lake where we once spent a long, Alice-in-Wonderland, afternoon.
    • The legislature are apparently willing to collaborate with the governor in his Alice-in-Wonderland venture in linguistic manipulation, all of course for the public good.
    • What an Alice-in-Wonderland world we inhabit.

Origin

See Carroll, Lewis.

 
 
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