| 单词 |
Stepford |
| 释义 |
Stepford, a.
Brit. |ˈstɛpfəd|, U.S. |ˈstɛpfərd|
[‹ Stepford, the name of a fictional American suburb in Ira Levin's novel The Stepford Wives (1972), which was the basis of a popular film adaptation in 1975.
In the novel and the film Stepford is a superficially idyllic suburb where the men have replaced their wives with obedient robots.]
Robotic; docile; obedient; acquiescent; (also) uniform; attractive but lacking in individuality, emotion, or thought.
1981Washington Post 13 July c6/1 Little Miss Beauty Pagent... Some of the girls in the 4-to-6 division are practicing their modeling on the runway... Walking Barbie Dolls. Stepford Babies. 1984Washington Post (Nexis) 23 Feb. b1 The only way the program could be phonier is if all the participants were computer-generated holograms—the Stepford celebrities. 1990J. Burchill Sex & Sensibility (1992) 124 They are the Stepford Stars, the living equivalent of thirtysomething—caring, sharing, soul-baring and boring as all-get-out. 1994P. Theroux Translating LA ix. 238 The answer was to try to turn everyday life into a theme park, a Stepford City. 2003Vanity Fair Sept. 262/1 Will the palace bureaucracy force her to be a Stepford queen, or will she emerge in her own role? |
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