crackpot

英 [ˈkrækpɒt]

美 [ˈkrækpɑːt]

n.  有古怪想法的人; 怪人
adj.  古怪的，离奇的; 不切实际的

复数：crackpots　

BNC.34005 / COCA.22984

牛津词典

noun

• 有古怪想法的人；怪人
  a person with strange or crazy ideas

柯林斯词典

• ADJ (某人或其想法)古怪的，离奇的，不切实际的
  If you describe someone or their ideas ascrackpot, you disapprove of them because you think that their ideas are strange and crazy.
  1. ...a crackpot millionaire.
     性格古怪的百万富翁
  2. ...crackpot schemes.
     不切实际的计划
  3. Acrackpotis a crackpot person.
     怪人;有古怪想法的人
  4. She was no more a crackpot than the rest of us.
     她和我们一样正常。

英英释义

noun

• a whimsically eccentric person
  Synonym:cranknutnut casefruitcakescrewball

双语例句

• Just a year ago, anyone suggesting that war could break out between China and Japan would have been dismissed as a crackpot.
  一年前要是有人说中日之间可能爆发战争，这个人肯定会被当成疯子。
• He was prone to dismiss himself as "that well-known crackpot".
  他常自嘲为“那个著名的怪人”。
• God isn't interested in watching you enact some per-formance of personality in order to comply with some crackpot notion you have about how a spiritual person looks or behaves.
  神没兴趣看你为了符合自己心中认定的心灵相貌或行为而扮演某种人格。
• They called him a crackpot.
  他们呼他为狂徒。
• To all of my crackpot friends, have a great day and remember to smell the flowers, on your side of the path.
  所有身上有裂纹的朋友，祝你们天天快乐，每天不要忘记去闻闻你身边的花香。
• He could tell you a hundred different schemes, all of them crackpot, and all of them had been tried in the Shank at one time or another.
  他可以告诉你一百种不同的越狱方法，每一种都很疯狂，而且肖申克的犯人都尝试过。
• Every crackpot in the world writes to him.
  世界上的每个怪人都给他写信。
• Only a crackpot would undertake the task of becoming a man of knowledge of his own accord.
  只有疯子才会心甘情愿地承担成为一个智者的责任。
• It is a crackpot idea, this time in our MSN is not in favor of or against the arguments we made an appointment to go to a medical examination.
  是自不量力吧，可这次在我们的MSN里没有赞成或反对的议论了，大家约好一起去体检。
• But they were also the crackpot idealist, even the blind overly self-assured person.
  但他们是过于空幻的理想主义者，甚至是带着眼罩的自以为是者。