dystopia

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /dɪsˈtəʊ.pi.ə/    美 /dɪsˈtoʊ.pi.ə/|/dɪsˈtɐʉpiə/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A miserable, dysfunctional state or society that has a very poor standard of living or severe censorship, oppression, etc. countable,uncountable
    — As novelist, he knows, too, that when he sees the future, it will not work—he will automatically be creating a “dystopia” (no one creates utopias any more: even the utopias of the past look like dystopias to us).
  2. Anatomical tissue that is not found in its usual place. countable,uncountable
    — The patient suffers from adrenal dystopia.

词形变化

dystopia plural dystopias plural dystopiae plural

词汇关系

衍生词
dystopia canthorum dystopian dystopic
相关词
dysphoria Orwellian

词源

From dys- + -topia, as if from Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-, “bad”) + τόπος (tópos, “place, region”) + -ία (-ía), based on utopia being reinterpreted as eu-topia.
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