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单词 chimera
释义
chimerachi‧me‧ra, chimaera /kaɪˈmɪərə, kə- $ -ˈmɪrə/ noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINchimera
Origin:
1300-1400 Latin chimaera, from Greek chimaira ‘female goat, chimera’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • the chimera of a "universal language"
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • A flailing chimera of camera crews, photographers and reporters staggers backwards down some city high street.
  • I wish only to have made it sufficiently clear that scientific reasoning is a chimera.
  • It was upon the advice of the Crown's United Kingdom ministers that the chimera of the Commonwealth was invented and installed.
  • The focus of media coverage in the popular press is implicitly working towards this chimera.
  • The last of these promises often proves more than a chimera, however.
  • The notion of transparent reporting which can be understood by the untutored layman is a chimera.
  • This qualified chimera image will allow our comparison of Presocratic reasoning with scientific reasoning to be more precise.
word sets
WORD SETS
centaur, nounchimera, nounCyclops, noundeity, noundemigod, nounfaun, noungod, noungriffin, noungryphon, nounHades, nounlegend, nounlotus, nounmyth, nounmythic, adjectivemythical, adjectivenymph, nounoracle, nounsaga, nounsatyr, nounsphinx, nounwyvern, noun
1formal something, especially an idea or hope, that is not really possible and can never exist:  trying to present that chimera, ‘a balanced view’2an imaginary creature that breathes fire and has a lion’s head, a goat’s body, and a snake’s tail3technical a living thing that contains cells from another living thing
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