Visionary
['vɪʒ(ə)n(ə)rɪ] or ['vɪʒənɛri]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a person with unusual powers of foresight.
(noun.) a person given to fanciful speculations and enthusiasms with little regard for what is actually possible.
格温多林手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions.
(a.) Affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on the imagination; given to reverie; apt to receive, and act upon, fancies as if they were realities.
(a.) Existing in imagination only; not real; fanciful; imaginary; having no solid foundation; as, visionary prospect; a visionary scheme or project.
(n.) One whose imagination is disturbed; one who sees visions or phantoms.
(n.) One whose imagination overpowers his reason and controls his judgment; an unpractical schemer; one who builds castles in the air; a daydreamer.
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同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Imaginative, romantic, given to reverie.[2]. Unreal, fanciful, fancied, ideal, fantastic, imaginary, chimerical, illusory, shadowy, Quixotic, Utopian, wild.
n. Dreamer, FANATIC, enthusiast, zealot, castle-builder.
整理:普雷斯利
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Fanciful, dreamy, chimerical, baseless, shadowy, imaginary, unreal, fabulous,romantic
ANT:Actual, real, truthful, sound, substantial, palpable, unromantic, sober,veritable
埃斯蒂斯整理
例句/造句/用法:
- But there arose no clamour in his breast, only a bitterness that was visionary in itself. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- But, however, I shall so far do justice to this part of the Academy, as to acknowledge that all of them were not so visionary. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Such reflections appear visionary to the eye of the practical statesman, but they are within the range of possibility to the philosopher. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- I made that wild escape into something visionary, and have slowly found out how wild it was. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- She is very vague and visionary. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Will my readers scorn the vanity, that made me attire myself with some care, for the sake of this visionary being? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Our expectations of the future grandeur of America are not so magnificent, and, therefore, not so vain and visionary, as you represent them to be. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Your wishes are not so chimerical; you are no visionary. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- When the sisters came to Willey Water, the lake lay all grey and visionary, stretching into the moist, translucent vista of trees and meadow. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- It boasts that it has ceased to be visionary and has become practical. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- I left that; it was not mine: it was the visionary bride's who had melted in air. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Forget visionary woe, and think only of real happiness! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- But no; that is too visionary. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Take her as the visionary nursling of your own fancy; and she will grow upon you, all the more clearly, as the living woman who dwells in mine. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- It was as if I had heard a summons from Heaven--as if a visionary messenger, like him of Macedonia, had enounced, Come over and help us! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- No wonder that mankind have been in the habit of calling statesmen of this class pedants, sophisters, doctrinaires, visionaries. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
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