fanciful

英['fænsɪfl] 美['fænsɪfl]
  • adj. 想像的;奇怪的;稀奇的
TEM8 TOEFL
Adjective:
  1. indulging in or influenced by fancy;

    "a fanciful mind"
    "all the notional vagaries of childhood"

  2. not based on fact; unreal;

    "the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties"
    "a small child's imaginary friends"
    "to create a notional world for oneself"

  3. having a curiously intricate quality;

    "a fanciful pattern with intertwined vines and flowers"

1. 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。

来自柯林斯例句

2. 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。

来自柯林斯例句

3. a fanciful gold border
别出心裁的金色镶边

来自《权威词典》

4. The modern poets have gone back to the fanciful poems of the metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century for many of their images.
现代派诗人就其许多想象又回到了十七世纪极抽象派诗人的意象诗中.

来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

5. He had such a fanciful, pictorial way of saying things.
他有一种隐晦曲折 、 光怪陆离的表达方式.

来自辞典例句

    用作形容词 (adj.)
    1. That story about a trip to the moon is fanciful.
      那个有关旅行到月球的故事是假想的。
    2. His scheme seems to me fanciful in the extreme.
      我觉得他的计划似乎完全是想入非非。
    3. That may be reasonable in theory but it sounds fanciful in practice.
      从理论上看这是说得过去的,可实际上却有点异想天开。
    4. You are never fanciful, my dear.
      亲爱的,你一点儿也不怪僻。
    5. He had such a fanciful, pictorial way of saying things.
      他有一种隐晦曲折、光怪陆离的表达方式。