| 单词 | imaginary |
| 释义 | imag·i·nary I. 1. a. < to guard the cattle against their real and their imaginary foes, the wolves and the witches — J.G.Frazer > b. < the statue of John Harvard … is an imaginary likeness; no portrait of Harvard is known to exist — American Guide Series: Massachusetts > 2. obsolete 3. obsolete 4. Synonyms: < those nervous persons who may be terrified by imaginary dangers are often courageous in the face of real danger — Havelock Ellis > In relation to things, fanciful indicates formation or conditioning by free, unrestrained fancy or imagination; in relation to people, it indicates a tendency to give free rein to the imagination < fanciful tale of his own exploits tells how he was carried, wounded, down the mountainside in a big buckskin bag tied to the back of a wrinkled squaw — American Guide Series: California > < one may perhaps without being too fanciful see in his art something of the magic of the Celt — Irving Babbitt > visionary applies to a person given to seeing visions or to the ideas and notions from visions rather than real facts and hence impractical, wild, and impossible of fulfillment or fruition < planning, as his visionary father might have done, to go to Brazil to pick up a fortune — Carl Van Doren > < unless, therefore, our philosophic vision receives technical development … it may rightly be condemned as unsubstantial and visionary — M.R.Cohen > fantastic and its variant fantastical heighten the notion of extravagant fancy far transcending the usual, ordinary, or real < one of those eoan errors to which we are subject before the clear commonplace of daylight orders and moderates our tenebrous and fantastical imaginations — Rose Macaulay > < a fantastic world inhabited by monsters of iron and steel — Louis Bromfield > < two heroes may mangle each other in every impossible and fantastic way, beyond the bounds of the faintest shadow of verisimilitude — H.O.Taylor > chimerical suggests the wild, utterly unreal, and extravagantly imaginary characteristics of creations of classical mythology < the defeat was more complete, more humiliating … the hopes of revival more chimerical — Times Literary Supplement > < as chimerical as a specter — Bernard Smith > quixotic describes completely unrealistic and impractical devotion to romantic or chivalric ideals < was quixotic, and would not permit a secret service and spies — G.K.Chesterton > < among the last quixotic acts of his life was an attempt to set up a Greek academy for aspiring authors — Alfred Kreymborg > < be so quixotic as to stand upon principles at the risk of losing the business — R.M.Cunningham > II. 1. obsolete 2. |
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