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词汇 Stepford
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Definition of Stepford in English:

Stepford

nounˈstɛpfədˈstepˌfərd
  • as modifier Denoting someone who is regarded as robotically conformist or obedient.

    像机器人一样墨守成规(或顺从)的人

    it seems that colleges want to produce a generation of PC-driven Stepford students

    看来高等院校想要培养出一代由个人电脑驱动的像机器人一样顺从的学生。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • So now you're saying I should be like a Stepford woman?
    • I was not going to be turned into a Stepford child.
    • We can go through life faking everything, so that Eve becomes our little Stepford child.
    • It was a prize, a brass ring, a suburban legend that, if true, would propel the average Stepford housewife to new heights of fame.
    • Family men come to the company picnics with their beautiful wives and Stepford children and they get the bonuses.
    • Or will she, too, eventually, become a Stepford wife?
    • So I mingled with the in crowd and they dressed me and made me over and turned me into one of them, completely - a Stepford friend.
    • Since she'd become a Stepford wife, I found those meltdowns hilarious.
    • If these Stepford citizens have their way, soon your life will be a vast, sterile emptiness.
    • He was released back to his dorm with the rest of his Stepford comrades.
    • Not that I'd wanna be stuck in that house with you and the rest of your Stepford family anyway.
    • I'm not a Stepford wife; I still feel the exultation and sadness that any person feels, I'm just not required to feel them 10 times as long or as intensively as I used to.
    • Before, I had been harbouring a notion that an old-fashioned, Stepford kind of life would somehow be preferable to the one I had.
    • Thankfully, I was not served by one of those Stepford attendants, but unfortunately my server did not pass the test.
    • But what does a Stepford husband do for recreation?
    • It would be a shame to watch 43 Stepford drivers race on Sundays.
    • Of course, she's the Stepford daughter right out of a mail-order magazine, and I'm second best.
    • All too often, however, she sounds less like a domestic goddess and more like a Stepford wife.
    • Unlike the threatened Stepford men, modern husbands are not turned off by women who can succeed at work.
    • When this bin liner was full I tied it up and put it in the grey bin like a dutiful Stepford wife.

Origin

From The Stepford Wives, the title of a 1972 novel by the American writer Ira Levin (1929–2007), in which Stepford is the name of a fictional idyllic suburb where the men have replaced their wives with robots.

Definition of Stepford in US English:

Stepford

nounˈstepˌfərd
  • as modifier Denoting someone who is regarded as robotically conformist or obedient.

    像机器人一样墨守成规(或顺从)的人

    it seems that colleges want to produce a generation of PC-driven Stepford students

    看来高等院校想要培养出一代由个人电脑驱动的像机器人一样顺从的学生。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • We can go through life faking everything, so that Eve becomes our little Stepford child.
    • Not that I'd wanna be stuck in that house with you and the rest of your Stepford family anyway.
    • Or will she, too, eventually, become a Stepford wife?
    • It would be a shame to watch 43 Stepford drivers race on Sundays.
    • He was released back to his dorm with the rest of his Stepford comrades.
    • It was a prize, a brass ring, a suburban legend that, if true, would propel the average Stepford housewife to new heights of fame.
    • Family men come to the company picnics with their beautiful wives and Stepford children and they get the bonuses.
    • When this bin liner was full I tied it up and put it in the grey bin like a dutiful Stepford wife.
    • Since she'd become a Stepford wife, I found those meltdowns hilarious.
    • But what does a Stepford husband do for recreation?
    • If these Stepford citizens have their way, soon your life will be a vast, sterile emptiness.
    • All too often, however, she sounds less like a domestic goddess and more like a Stepford wife.
    • I'm not a Stepford wife; I still feel the exultation and sadness that any person feels, I'm just not required to feel them 10 times as long or as intensively as I used to.
    • Of course, she's the Stepford daughter right out of a mail-order magazine, and I'm second best.
    • So I mingled with the in crowd and they dressed me and made me over and turned me into one of them, completely - a Stepford friend.
    • So now you're saying I should be like a Stepford woman?
    • I was not going to be turned into a Stepford child.
    • Before, I had been harbouring a notion that an old-fashioned, Stepford kind of life would somehow be preferable to the one I had.
    • Unlike the threatened Stepford men, modern husbands are not turned off by women who can succeed at work.
    • Thankfully, I was not served by one of those Stepford attendants, but unfortunately my server did not pass the test.

Origin

From The Stepford Wives, the title of a 1972 novel by the American writer Ira Levin (1929–2007), in which Stepford is the name of a fictional idyllic suburb where the men have replaced their wives with robots.

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