英语词汇“subtopia”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

subtopia

释义

subtopia|sʌbˈtəʊpɪə|
Also Subtopia.
[Blend of suburb and Utopia: cf. Suburbia.]
A disparaging term for: Suburbia regarded as an ideal place. Applied more generally to areas of undifferentiated, ill-planned, and ugly suburban development; unsightly suburbs which encroach on the countryside.
1955I. Nairn in Archit. Rev. CXVII. 365 There will be no real distinction between town and country. Both will consist of a limbo of shacks, bogus rusticities, wire and aerodromes, set in some fir-poled fields... Upon this new Britain the Review bestows a name in the hope that it will stick—Subtopia.1960Koestler Lotus & Robot ii. 277, I loathe crooners and swooners,..neon and subtopia.1963A. Ross Australia 63 iv. 102 The descent from Utopia to Sub-topia is steep and short.1971Country Life 2 Sept. 566/1 Will there still be English villages as we know them, or will they have merged into an unending subtopia in which town and country have become indistinguishable?1976W. J. Burley Wycliffe & Schoolgirls vii. 123 The killer was a man of the suburbs..at home in a neatly patterned subtopia.

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