| 单词 | ill-imagined |
| 释义 | > as lemmasill-imagined 2. Invented, created in the imagination; planned, designed. In later use only with adverbs of quality, chiefly as the second element in compounds, as ill-imagined. See also well-imagined adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > planning > [adjective] > planned compassedc1430 contrivedc1450 imagined1509 castc1540 devised1552 plotted1592 projected1630 brewed1637 forelaid1640 laid1697 calculated1723 planned1728 unspontaneous1791 programmed1845 tactical1876 drafted1877 programmatical1890 programmatic1899 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) xxiv. 110 Fantasy..hath the hole aspecte The ymagyned mater to brynge to fynysshement. a1658 J. Cleveland Rustick Rampant in Wks. (1687) 491 By false, subtile, and imagined Language. 1715 A. Pope in tr. Homer Iliad I. ii. Observ. 159 By what judicious and well-imagined Degrees the Army is restrain'd. 1809 tr. Chevalier de Bourgoanne Trav. in Spain in J. Pinkerton Gen. Coll. Voy. & Trav. V. 319 The cathedral of Salamanc..is badly imagined. 1831 W. Scott Pirate (new ed.) I. xii. 202 Large and ill-imagined additions, hastily adapted to the original building. 1919 A. Lowell in N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 7 Dec. 1/4 It is a work of high art, a vivid picture of a place and time, a strongly imagined dream of memory. 1979 W. C. Booth Crit. Understanding ii. 66 The contrast is thus between a vividly imagined world of suffering and the wishful abstractions of the sestet. 1984 Washington Post (Nexis) 15 Apr. 5 Neither moral themes nor visions can redeem a novel so hasty and ill-imagined. 2007 H. Small Long Life v. 176 The inequity between the poorly imagined inner life of Père Goriot and the richly imagined inner life of Rastignac. < as lemmas |
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