clockwork orange

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person or organism with a mechanistic morality or lack of free will.
    — Contrarily, he may be saying, “Look what your computerized, commodified society has made of me—a clockwork orange, for all appearances organic but mechanical."

词形变化

clockwork oranges plural

词源

From the novel A Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess, in which the main character is programmed to be incapable of antisocial behavior.
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