Alice-in-Wonderland
adjective /ˌælɪs ɪn ˈwʌndəlænd/
/ˌælɪs ɪn ˈwʌndərlænd/
[only before noun]- used to describe a situation that is very strange, in which things happen that do not make any sense and are the opposite of what you would expect
(事情悖理且与想象的截然相反的)怪异局面 - I felt I was in an Alice-in-Wonderland world.
我感觉就像置身于奇幻世界之中。 - In the Alice-in-Wonderland world of European agriculture, farmers are paid more to grow more even when nobody wants to buy what they produce.
在欧洲农业的爱丽丝梦游仙境世界里,即使没有人想买他们生产的东西,农民也能得到更多的报酬来种植更多的作物。
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词源From the title of a children’s story by Lewis Carroll. - I felt I was in an Alice-in-Wonderland world.