英和和英

形容詞

Alice-in-Wonderland (comparative more Alice-in-Wonderland, superlative most Alice-in-Wonderland)

1. Alternative form of Alice in Wonderland
   • 1984, Great Britain, Parliament, House of Commons, Parliamentary debates: Official report, Volume 75, p. 335:

     Members with a fascination for the horrid to look at the explanatory memorandum, which deals with fresh fruit and vegetables. It discloses the most Alice-in- Wonderland situation ever.

   • 2008, Gordon Stobart, Testing Times, page 137:

     What gives this an even more Alice-in-Wonderland feel is that the Average Yearly Progress targets are based on what must be done to achieve this impossible goal...

   • 2011 A. Bowdoin Van Riper, Learning from Mickey, Donald and Walt, p. 120:

     After the creature recites the value of pi—erroneously, as it turns out—its mouth disappears and it splits back into separate geometric shapes. It's an Alice-in-Wonderland moment, to be sure.

   • 2012, Margaret Jane Radin, Boilerplate, page 14:

     Declaring that you've agreed to something before you could have known that that is what you were doing has an Alice-in-Wonderland quality to it.

   • 2012, James MacGregor Burns, The Crosswinds of Freedom, 1932–1988:

     There was an Alice-in-Wonderland quality to these discussions: most of the key provisions of the draft agreement, aside from the return of POWs, would be made irrelevant by the transcending legitimation of Hanoi's presence in force south of the DMZ.

   • 2014, John H. Miller, American Political and Cultural Perspectives on Japan:

     Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta The Mikado (1885) —which was a hit in America as well as Britain—depicted the Japanese as comic aliens from an Alice-in-Wonderland world.