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单词 looking-glass world
释义

looking-glass world

noun
An imaginary place conceived of as being visible in the image shown in a looking-glass, especially one in which the principles which underpin the real world (as the rules of logic, the laws of physics, etc.) operate differently, or in reverse; also in extended use.
  • Chiefly with reference or allusion to the imaginary world depicted in ‘L. Carroll’ Through the Looking-glass (1871)..

Origin

Late 19th century; earliest use found in ‘Lewis Carroll’ (1832–1898), author, mathematician, and photographer (real name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson).

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