Chimerical
[kaɪ'mɪərɪkəl]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) produced by a wildly fanciful imagination; 'his Utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists'- Douglas Bush .
手打:胡里奥--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except in thought; as, chimerical projects.
鲍里斯校對
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Imaginary, fantastic, fanciful, visionary, illusory, shadowy, wild, Quixotic, Utopian.
整理:伊冯
同義詞及反義詞：
[See VISIONARY]
手打:特伦斯
例句/造句/用法:
- Both these parts are essential, nor is the distinction vain and chimerical. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- The simple kind of Centrifugal Pump applied in that chimerical scheme was known upwards of one hundred years ago. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Your wishes are not so chimerical; you are no visionary. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The history of the steam engine affords a striking example of the gradual development of an invention from vague and chimerical notions, into an accomplished fact of astonishing magnitude. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- The phaenomenon may be real, though my explication be chimerical. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- This account of the bank of Amsterdam, however, it will appear hereafter, is in a great measure chimerical. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Such a speculation, can, at worst, be regarded but as a new Utopia, less amusing, certainly, but no more useless and chimerical than the old one. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
手打:特伦斯