quixotic

Manski might seem quixotic in his request that serious policy analysis be presented with more humility, given that neither politicians nor the media have much appetite even for overly-certain serious policy analysis.

曼斯基主张严肃的政策分析应当表现得更加谦逊，这一点似乎有些异想天开，毕竟无论是政治人物还是媒体，对严肃政策分析都没有多少兴趣，即便这些分析有着过分的确定性。

The belief in rationality may seem the most quixotic of all, but many elements of the crisis were provoked not by irrational behaviour but by rational responses to perverse incentives.

对于理性的笃信，或许看上去最不切实际，但触发危机众多要素的并不是非理性行为，而是对不正当激励因素的理性反应。

With just a few quixotic tendencies between us, we, Ian and Geoff, rode from Waterloo to Vancouver together last summer.

去年夏天，怀揣着一点堂吉诃德式的幻想，我们俩，也就是伊恩和杰夫，结伴从沃特卢一路骑车到了温哥华。