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fanciful adj.想像的；奇怪的；稀奇的 (1) 那个有关旅行到月球的故事是假想的。(2) 我觉得他的计划似乎完全是想入非非。(3) 从理论上看这是说得过去的，可实际上却有点异想天开。(4) 亲爱的，你一点儿也不怪僻。(5) 他有一种隐晦曲折、光怪陆离的表达方式。 The adjective fanciful sprang from the 15th-century noun fancy, which was in turn a short version of the word fantasy. All three words contain the same elemental meaning, that of something unreal. Someone who is fanciful usually allows creative thought rather than the practical to come to the forefront. Edgar Allan Poe said, "It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic."

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英 ['fænsɪfl] 美 ['fænsɪfl] (1) That story about a trip to the moon is fanciful.(2) His scheme seems to me fanciful in the extreme.(3) That may be reasonable in theory but it sounds fanciful in practice.(4) You are never fanciful, my dear.(5) He had such a fanciful, pictorial way of saying things. Turn fanciful around and you get "full of fancy," which gives you the gist of the meaning. The adjective refers to something not quite real, usually something with a whimsical or even dreamlike quality. 1[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]空想的；异想天开的 If you describe an idea as fanciful, you disapprove of it because you think it comes from someone's imagination, and is therefore unrealistic or unlikely to be true.   [disapproval]...fanciful ideas about Martian life...有关火星生命的奇思异想Designing silicon chips to mimic human organs sounds fanciful.设计硅芯片模仿人的器官听上去是异想天开。2[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]奇异的；古怪的；花哨的 If you describe the appearance of something as fanciful, you mean that it is unusual and elaborate rather than plain and simple. The economic gloom of the early 1980s was relieved by fanciful architecture.20 世纪 80 年代初期的经济萧条气氛因各种奇异古怪建筑的出现而有所缓解。

英语单词	fanciful
英美音标	英 ['fænsɪfl] 美 ['fænsɪfl]
中文释义	adj.想像的；奇怪的；稀奇的
英语例句	(1) That story about a trip to the moon is fanciful. (2) His scheme seems to me fanciful in the extreme. (3) That may be reasonable in theory but it sounds fanciful in practice. (4) You are never fanciful, my dear. (5) He had such a fanciful, pictorial way of saying things.
中文例句	(1) 那个有关旅行到月球的故事是假想的。 (2) 我觉得他的计划似乎完全是想入非非。 (3) 从理论上看这是说得过去的，可实际上却有点异想天开。 (4) 亲爱的，你一点儿也不怪僻。 (5) 他有一种隐晦曲折、光怪陆离的表达方式。
vocabulary简明	Turn fanciful around and you get "full of fancy," which gives you the gist of the meaning. The adjective refers to something not quite real, usually something with a whimsical or even dreamlike quality.
vocabulary扩展	The adjective fanciful sprang from the 15th-century noun fancy, which was in turn a short version of the word fantasy. All three words contain the same elemental meaning, that of something unreal. Someone who is fanciful usually allows creative thought rather than the practical to come to the forefront. Edgar Allan Poe said, "It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic."
柯林斯解释	1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]空想的；异想天开的 If you describe an idea as fanciful, you disapprove of it because you think it comes from someone's imagination, and is therefore unrealistic or unlikely to be true. [disapproval] ...fanciful ideas about Martian life... 有关火星生命的奇思异想 Designing silicon chips to mimic human organs sounds fanciful. 设计硅芯片模仿人的器官听上去是异想天开。 2 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]奇异的；古怪的；花哨的 If you describe the appearance of something as fanciful, you mean that it is unusual and elaborate rather than plain and simple. The economic gloom of the early 1980s was relieved by fanciful architecture. 20 世纪 80 年代初期的经济萧条气氛因各种奇异古怪建筑的出现而有所缓解。

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