Kobayashi Maru

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A scenario with no positive or favourable outcome; a no-win situation. informal
    — Christmas is the Kobayashi Maru of holidays. It is unwinnable.

词形变化

Kobayashi Marus plural

词源

From the fictional Kobayashi Maru test, first introduced in the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, a training exercise in which Starfleet cadets face an intentionally unwinnable scenario as a test of character. The test involves the rescue of an eponymous vessel, named by Star Trek II screenwriter Jack B. Sowards after his neighbours, from the Japanese family name Kobayashi and maru (a suffix of Japanese ship names).
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