brave new world

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A better, often utopian (future) world.
    — O wonder! / How many goodly creatures are there heere? / How beauteous mankinde is? O braue new world / That has ſuch people in't.
  2. A terrible, often oppressive or dystopian world.
    — In this brave new world, the IMF and other Western financial institutions dictated radical free trade "shock treatment" to both developing nations and the former USSR ...

词形变化

brave new worlds plural

词源

From the title of Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel Brave New World, itself a reference to a line from The Tempest (1610), see quotations.
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