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| | NOUN | | | | | a situation in which people expect their lives to be better than before , especially because of new technology , but are often disappointed that things have not improved as much as they had hoped 勇敢的新世界(尤指由于新技术而使人们的生活得到了改善。但这种进步常常是令人失望的,因为事情没有变得像人们所希望的那样好) | the brave new world of Internet banking 网上银行的勇敢新世界 | | | Word story: ˌbrave new ˈworld | | | | From Brave New World, a novel by the British writer Aldous Huxley that describes a society in which science and technology have not improved people’ s lives as expected. The expression was first used in Shakespeare’ s play The Tempest. | | | | | |