神马作文网求cloud-cuckoo-land这一短语的出处
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求cloud-cuckoo-land这一短语的出处
含义是脱离现实的幻境,是lala-land的同义语.感觉应该是出自某个典故或者小故事的.
含义是脱离现实的幻境,是lala-land的同义语.感觉应该是出自某个典故或者小故事的.
Cloud Cuckoo Land refers to an unrealistically idealistic state where everything is perfect.("You're living in Cloud-cuckoo-land.") It hints that the person referred to is naïve,unaware of reality or deranged in holding such an optimistic belief.The reference is to the play,The Birds by the Athenian playwright Aristophanes,in which Pisthetairos (which can be translated to mean "Mr.Trusting") and Euelpides (which can be translated to mean "Mr.Hopeful") with the help of Tereus,tired of the Earth and Olympus,decide to erect a perfect city between the clouds,to be named Cloud-Cuckoo-Land (Νεφελοκοκκυγία -- Nephelokokkygia