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dystopia(n.)

“虚构的糟糕地方”,1952年,来自 dys- “坏的,异常的”和从 utopia 中抽象出来的结尾。早在医学上使用时,指“器官的移位”(1844年),第二个元素来自希腊语 topos “地方”(见 topos)。Dystopian 在1868年被 J.S. Mill 用于非医学意义上:

I may be permitted, as one who, in common with many of my betters, have been subjected to the charge of being Utopian, to congratulate the Government on having joined that goodly company. It is, perhaps, too complimentary to call them Utopians, they ought rather to be called dys-topians, cacotopians. What is commonly called Utopian is something too good to be practicable; but what they appear favour is too bad to be practicable. [speech, March 12, 1868]
我可以作为一个与许多更好的人一样被指责为乌托邦主义者的人,恭喜政府加入了这个美好的团队。也许称他们为乌托邦主义者太过恭维了,他们应该被称为 dys-topians,cacotopians。通常所谓的乌托邦是一些太好以至于不可行的东西; 但他们所支持的东西太糟糕以至于不可行。[演讲,1868年3月12日]

该词起源时间:1952年