laputa

• اسم علم يشير إلى جزيرة طائرة خيالية في رواية «رحلات جوليفر» لجوناثان سويفت، اشتهر سكانها بانشغالهم بمشاريع علمية مجردة وغير عملية على حساب الشؤون الواقعية.

A proper noun referring to a fictional flying island from Jonathan Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels', known for its inhabitants' obsession with abstract and impractical scientific projects while neglecting practical matters.

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   A fictional floating island in Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels, where the inhabitants focus on absurd and unrealistic intellectual pursuits while ignoring practical needs.

   جزيرة خيالية طائرة

   • In Gulliver's Travels, the flying island of Laputa demonstrates the folly of pure theory without application.
   • The academic committee was so lost in abstract ideas that they resembled the philosophers of Laputa.
   • The novel satirizes the impracticality of Laputa through absurd experiments like extracting sunbeams from cucumbers.
   • Laputa serves as a metaphor for any society that prioritizes idle speculation over useful labor.