That leaves him with an appreciation of both physical bookstores and e-books , and " a perhaps quixotic hope that they find positive ways to interact . "
Or was he backing down from a quixotic effort that he now knows will cost him too much support back home ?
还是准备放弃堂吉诃德式的努力现在他知道，这种努力会让他在国内失去太多的支持？
Until recently this mostly quixotic linguistic pursuit born out of a passion for words and grammatical structures lived on little-visited web sites or in college dissertations .
Europe 's main rescue fund , the european financial stability facility , will issue partial guarantees for new sovereign debt . It will provide seed capital for new financial structures into which europe hopes to tempt sovereign-wealth funds and private investors-hopes that will prove quixotic .
