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单词 Stepford
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Definition of Stepford in English:

Stepford

nounˈstɛpfədˈstepˌfərd
  • as modifier Denoting someone who is regarded as robotically conformist or obedient.

    it seems that colleges want to produce a generation of PC-driven Stepford students
    Example sentencesExamples
    • So now you're saying I should be like a Stepford woman?
    • I was not going to be turned into a Stepford child.
    • We can go through life faking everything, so that Eve becomes our little Stepford child.
    • It was a prize, a brass ring, a suburban legend that, if true, would propel the average Stepford housewife to new heights of fame.
    • Family men come to the company picnics with their beautiful wives and Stepford children and they get the bonuses.
    • Or will she, too, eventually, become a Stepford wife?
    • So I mingled with the in crowd and they dressed me and made me over and turned me into one of them, completely - a Stepford friend.
    • Since she'd become a Stepford wife, I found those meltdowns hilarious.
    • If these Stepford citizens have their way, soon your life will be a vast, sterile emptiness.
    • He was released back to his dorm with the rest of his Stepford comrades.
    • Not that I'd wanna be stuck in that house with you and the rest of your Stepford family anyway.
    • I'm not a Stepford wife; I still feel the exultation and sadness that any person feels, I'm just not required to feel them 10 times as long or as intensively as I used to.
    • Before, I had been harbouring a notion that an old-fashioned, Stepford kind of life would somehow be preferable to the one I had.
    • Thankfully, I was not served by one of those Stepford attendants, but unfortunately my server did not pass the test.
    • But what does a Stepford husband do for recreation?
    • It would be a shame to watch 43 Stepford drivers race on Sundays.
    • Of course, she's the Stepford daughter right out of a mail-order magazine, and I'm second best.
    • All too often, however, she sounds less like a domestic goddess and more like a Stepford wife.
    • Unlike the threatened Stepford men, modern husbands are not turned off by women who can succeed at work.
    • When this bin liner was full I tied it up and put it in the grey bin like a dutiful Stepford wife.

Origin

From The Stepford Wives, the title of a 1972 novel by the American writer Ira Levin (1929–2007), in which Stepford is the name of a fictional idyllic suburb where the men have replaced their wives with robots.

 
 

Definition of Stepford in US English:

Stepford

nounˈstepˌfərd
  • as modifier Denoting someone who is regarded as robotically conformist or obedient.

    it seems that colleges want to produce a generation of PC-driven Stepford students
    Example sentencesExamples
    • We can go through life faking everything, so that Eve becomes our little Stepford child.
    • Not that I'd wanna be stuck in that house with you and the rest of your Stepford family anyway.
    • Or will she, too, eventually, become a Stepford wife?
    • It would be a shame to watch 43 Stepford drivers race on Sundays.
    • He was released back to his dorm with the rest of his Stepford comrades.
    • It was a prize, a brass ring, a suburban legend that, if true, would propel the average Stepford housewife to new heights of fame.
    • Family men come to the company picnics with their beautiful wives and Stepford children and they get the bonuses.
    • When this bin liner was full I tied it up and put it in the grey bin like a dutiful Stepford wife.
    • Since she'd become a Stepford wife, I found those meltdowns hilarious.
    • But what does a Stepford husband do for recreation?
    • If these Stepford citizens have their way, soon your life will be a vast, sterile emptiness.
    • All too often, however, she sounds less like a domestic goddess and more like a Stepford wife.
    • I'm not a Stepford wife; I still feel the exultation and sadness that any person feels, I'm just not required to feel them 10 times as long or as intensively as I used to.
    • Of course, she's the Stepford daughter right out of a mail-order magazine, and I'm second best.
    • So I mingled with the in crowd and they dressed me and made me over and turned me into one of them, completely - a Stepford friend.
    • So now you're saying I should be like a Stepford woman?
    • I was not going to be turned into a Stepford child.
    • Before, I had been harbouring a notion that an old-fashioned, Stepford kind of life would somehow be preferable to the one I had.
    • Unlike the threatened Stepford men, modern husbands are not turned off by women who can succeed at work.
    • Thankfully, I was not served by one of those Stepford attendants, but unfortunately my server did not pass the test.

Origin

From The Stepford Wives, the title of a 1972 novel by the American writer Ira Levin (1929–2007), in which Stepford is the name of a fictional idyllic suburb where the men have replaced their wives with robots.

 
 
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