luftmensch

n. 不切实际的空想家, 梦想家

词形变化

luftmenschen 复数 luftmenschen

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    One more concerned with airy intellectual pursuits than practical matters like earning an income.

    My wife is such a luftmensch she missed our anniversary dinner because she was too busy reading her books!

  2. 2.

    a beggar, petty trader, peddler, and various types of paupers

词源

From Yiddish לופֿטמענטש (luftmentsh), from לופֿט (luft, “air”) + מענטש (mentsh, “person”). Compare German von Luft und Liebe leben (“to disregard the practical matters of life”, literally “to live on air and love”), German Luftikus (“impractical, quixotic, or careless person”). The word first appeared in Yiddish literature in 1860s (Nicolas Vallois, "The Luftmentsh as an economic metaphor for Jewish poverty: a rhetorical analysis").

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