Erewhonian
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
英 /ˌɛɹɪˈ(h)wəʊ.ni.ən/
美 /ˌɛɹəˈ(h)woʊ.ni.ən/|/ˌɛɹəˈ(h)wɑ.ni.ən/
英文释义
名词 n.
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An inhabitant of the fictional land of Erewhon.
— I've never heard of him. What sort of name is that for an Erewhonian?
形容词 adj.
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Of or pertaining to the fictional land of Erewhon.
— This seems to be the customary Erewhonian approach to a problem, this time the problem of the incorporeality of God.
词源
词源 1
From Erewhon + -ian: the country's name is an approximate reversal of nowhere, from the novel Erewhon (1872) by Samuel Butler.
词源 2
From Erewhon + -ian: the country's name is an approximate reversal of nowhere, from the novel Erewhon (1872) by Samuel Butler.
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