Fanciful
['fænsɪfʊl;-f(ə)l] or ['fænsɪfl]
解释:
(adj.) indulging in or influenced by fancy; 'a fanciful mind'; 'all the notional vagaries of childhood' .
(adj.) having a curiously intricate quality; 'a fanciful pattern with intertwined vines and flowers' .
(adj.) not based on fact; unreal; 'the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties'- F.D.Roosevelt; 'a small child's imaginary friends'; 'to create a notional world for oneself' .
海耶斯校对--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as, a fanciful man forms visionary projects.
(a.) Conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as, a fanciful scheme; a fanciful theory.
(a.) Curiously shaped or constructed; as, she wore a fanciful headdress.
编辑:娜塔莎
同义词及近义词:
a. [1]. Visionary, imaginative, whimsical, CAPRICIOUS.[2]. Chimerical, imaginary, ideal, fantastical, wild.
整理:希欧多尔
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Grotesque, chimerical, unreal, imaginary, quaint, eccentric, freakish,humorsome, erroneous, capricious, whimsical, erratic, absurd, fitful
ANT:Natural, literal, regular, real, sober, ordinary, truthful, accurate, correct,orderly, calculable
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例句:
- Much of their theory must seem to the modern mind merely fanciful and unsupported speculation. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- I like you to be fanciful about your mother's health. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- It might as well be something about Mars or about some fanciful country unless it fructifies in the individual's own life. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- But this is the fanciful side of the situation. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- No graceful little adornment, no fanciful little device, however trivial, anywhere expressed her influence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- I had expected some extravagant proposition, and remained silent awhile, collecting my thoughts that I might the better combat her fanciful scheme. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- They had but little clothing, but such as they had was fanciful in character and fantastic in its arrangement. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to the sound produced by cocking a rifle. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- I am afraid I am sometimes very fanciful and troublesome. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- But behold, they were not wild enough--they were not fanciful enough--they have not told half the story. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Formerly she had been a light-hearted infant, fanciful, but gay and childish. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- You know, papa, you said the other day I was getting fanciful. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- But there was now a great darkness besides; and that invested the storm with new terrors, real and fanciful. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- The thing was incomprehensible to Tip, and altogether a fanciful notion. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- These are very fanciful ideas, to be mentioned only to be dismissed. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- No doubt you thought me fanciful. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- A further step in this line brought Edison to the aerophone, around which the Figaro weaved its fanciful description. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- I am not a fanciful person, but I give you my word that I seemed to hear Moriarty's voice screaming at me out of the abyss. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- It is inclosed in a sort of little temple of yellow and white stone, of fanciful design. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- My dears, here interrupted Mrs. Pryor, does it not strike you that your conversation for the last ten minutes has been rather fanciful? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Give me five minutes of your attention; and I will undertake to show you that Science sanctions my proposal, fanciful as it may seem. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Especially when _one_ of those two is such a fanciful, troublesome creature! 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- In my fanciful times, I fancy that they might be anywhere; and I almost expect to see their dear faces on the bridges or the quays. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- He found, when he looked up, that this sensation was not a fanciful one. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- But the talk of the two was anything but fanciful, as they were engaged in discussing their projected tour in Levantine waters. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- The bedstead, chairs, and lounges, were of bamboo, wrought in peculiarly graceful and fanciful patterns. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- The floors were laid in fanciful figures wrought in mosaics of many-colored marbles. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- It finds its greatest application in artistic and fanciful work in inks of various colors, and its development into chromo-lithography in the Nineteenth Century has grown into a fine art. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- I explained her character to you, and how she interposed some ridiculous fanciful notions in the way of our being as respectable as I tried for. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- It is surely rather fanciful. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
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