Stepford
/ˈstepfɔːd/noun
as modifier
- denoting someone who is regarded as robotically conformist or obedient像机器人一样墨守成规(或顺从)的人:
it seems that colleges want to produce a generation of PC-driven Stepford students.
看来高等院校想要培养出一代由个人电脑驱动的像机器人一样顺从的学生。
词源
from The Stepford Wives, the title of a 1972 novel by the American writer Ira Levin (born 1929), in which Stepford is the name of a fictional idyllic suburb where the men have replaced their wives with robots.