U - topiaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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Utopia (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 Utopias)

1. Alternative letter-case form of utopia.
   • 1945, John Laird, The Device of Government: An Essay on Civil Polity, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, page 115:

     For a long time to come, at least, it is too dangerous an experiment to base on hope. Again they may say that it never could succeed unless in a uchronian Utopia 'above these ruinable skies'.

   • 1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 131:

     As everyone knows, almost all booked passenger and freight trains are diagrammed into rosters for engines and men, and in an operating Utopia everything would work out daily according to plan.

   • 1969, Bryce F. Ryan, Social and cultural change, page 3:

     Whether produced as a Utopia or as a Nineteen Eighty-Four, a condition of changelessness would make man something less than human.

   • 1972, W. G. Fleming, Ontario's Educative Society, volume 3, page 558:

     An examless, gradeless school would have a better social climate; perhaps some would benefit academically. But it is a pure act of faith to believe such educational Utopia is possible.

   • 1974, Kenneth Young, H. G. Wells, Longman Group Ltd, →ISBN, page 44:

     Orwell had correctly seen that the achievement of Wells’s ideas would be far from the frivolity of ‘Utopiae full of nude women’ and visions of ‘super garden cities’.

   • 1978, The Spectator, volume 240, number 1, page 25:

     But the bleakest Utopia of all, the very first of the Unutopias, had come from Wells long before that.

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