cloud cuckoo land是什么意思_cloud cuckoo land的用法_词性_词根

双语例句

Before the next boom gets under way, the Fed needs a credible commitment to limiting leverage and raising interest rates and doing what is necessary to shock people out of cloud-cuckoo land.

在下一个繁荣时期开启之前，美联储需要做出可靠的承诺：限制杠杆率、提高利率、并采取必要行动将人们从乌托邦的幻境中惊醒。

释义

a state of unrealistic or absurdly over-optimistic fantasy

不切实际的幻想；过分乐观的幻梦

anyone who believes that the Bill will be effective is living in cloud cuckoo land.

任何相信该法案有效的人都抱着不切实际的幻想。

词源

"late 19th cent.: translation of Greek Nephelokokkugia, the name of the city built by the birds in Aristophanes' comedy Birds, from nephelē ‘cloud' + kokkux ‘cuckoo’."