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.- ...a crackpot millionaire.
性格古怪的百万富翁 - ...crackpot schemes.
不切实际的计划 - Acrackpotis a crackpot person.
怪人;有古怪想法的人 - She was no more a crackpot than the rest of us.
她和我们一样正常。
- ...a crackpot millionaire.
英英释义
noun
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。 - Until recently, Kaufman was rather a lonely voice calling for equity market reform; indeed many powerful financial participants regarded him as something of a crackpot.
直到最近，考夫曼在呼吁股市改革方面一直是孤掌难鸣；实际上，许多有实权的金融参与者都视其为疯子。 - But in his time, a lot of people thought that Christopher Columbus was a crackpot.
可是哥伦布的情况就不一样了。当时人们认为他很怪，有神经病，因为他说航行可以围绕地球转，但是事实证明他是对的，所以他是聪明，不能算是crackpot。 - They called him a crackpot.
他们呼他为狂徒。 - Everyone knows Professor Wilkins is a crackpot.
大家都知道教授是个怪人。 - 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。 - N Faces of the Crackpot Club
怪人俱乐部的N张脸谱 - 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。 - 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。 - As operating devices, perpetual-motion machines are the province of crackpot science and science fiction.
作为工作装置来看，永动机属于科学空想和科学上的杜撰。