several fresh-faced youths idealistically enlist in the army, only to find disillusionment and death.
几个稚气未脱的青年,满怀憧憬,应征入伍,结果却发现梦想破灭,处处都是死亡。
for example, regime change today has assumed a whole new dimension: formerly, those who took down a despot would, in time, revert to what they had so idealistically intended to replace.
idealistically motivated, he made his career choice when young, wanting to work for mankind and play his part in helping planet earth become a better place.
after dropping out from university, i am still following my dreams, yet with an idealistically pessimistic attitude.
我大学肄业,怀抱一腔理想的悲世主义,依然去走自己的路。
in youth, like his boy pin, calvino began his literary pilgrimage as a partisan adventurer, idealistically seeking the means to build a better world out of the travesty of war.