| 单词 | fancy |
| 释义 | fan·cy I. 1. a. < a fancy for a stroll by the river this evening > < how does this strike your fancy? > < had a fancy for rich delicacies > b. < sometimes the queen took a fancy to handsome lads about the court > 2. a. < the prediction of his return is based on a mere fancy > b. < what sorry fancies trouble you so? > c. < what a pretty fancy her drawing is > < an excellent trout fly, my father's own fancy > 3. 4. archaic 5. a. obsolete b. c. 6. a. b. c. d. 7. < a person of delicate fancy > 8. 9. a. (1) (2) (3) < the bulldog fancy > b. 10. also fancy roller Synonyms: < was this only the fancy of a visionary, or … would it come true in the end? — Ellen Glasgow > < the status of archeological fact and fancy in the world today — W.W.Taylor > fantasy is an imaginative product (often extended and often in literary or artistic form) the greater part or the significant part of which has no correspondence with an objective reality, usually implying an unrestrained inventiveness < lost himself in a pictured fantasy of a London working-class shopping district on a Saturday night — C.S.Forester > < understood Bloom's mind as a river of nonsequiturs and fantasies of fear, guilt and desire — Time > < intoxicated by fantasies of world conquest — Nathaniel Peffer > < to cleanse our minds of all fantasy and daydream — Economic Council Letter > phantasy, generally interchangeable with fantasy, sometimes applies more to the psychological image-making power in general or its product, often also standing as a clearer antonym of truth or reality < the distinctions between dream and reality, imagination and fact are blurred, and the speeches and activities of his characters are a further acting out of the schizophrenic's lonely phantasy-life, a charade in which the fixed meaning is contactlessness — Isaac Rosenfeld > < on the stage phantasy, a strange persuasive illusion, reigns — Leonide Zarine > < probably in his life, certainly in his poetry, there is no sharp boundary between phantasy and reality — H.S.Canby > phantasm may apply to a phantasy, a mental image, or to a fantasy, especially a hallucination < held that only the Supreme Being exists and all that we call the natural world is illusion, a phantasm of the human mind having no real existence of its own — Radhagovinda Basak > < the figures in the rooming house, in the bars and cabarets slid out of his thoughts like phantasms that had no real existence — Donn Byrne > vision generally applies to what the mind sees so clearly or concretely as to suggest concrete reality, as if revealed by a supernatural power or by vivid intuition, sometimes applying to an image of something one wishes strongly to realize, often suggesting something spiritual in essence and therefore beyond the general grasp of the senses < what visions and revelations God may have granted — Willa Cather > < visions of suddenly acquired wealth began to float in their minds — Sherwood Anderson > < our vision of world law and some sort of worldwide law enforcement agency — Saturday Review > dream applies to the ideas and especially the images present to the mind in sleep. Figuratively, like daydream, it suggests vague or idle, commonly happy, imaginings of future events or imaginative projections of the ideal self or life; unlike daydream, however, dream can apply to a serious, though usually idealized, envisioning of a realizable, often planned, future event or state of affairs < to wake from a bad dream > < were it not for the opressions and monotonies of daily experience, the realm of dream and reverie would not be attractive — John Dewey > < a dream of a better society in which to live > < the shock that will bring them out of their daydreams into today's realities — Science News Letter > < a daydream, which is wishful thinking and an attempt to escape the experience of oneself — Life > < daydreams of a better world — Fortune > nightmare applies to any frightful and oppressive dream which occurs in sleep or by extension to any vision or experience which inspires terror or cannot easily be shaken off < to wake in a cold sweat from a nightmare > < how many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true — L.P.Smith > < a marriage might be a nightmare to both partners — F.L.Allen > Synonym: see in addition imagination. II. transitive verb 1. a. < it's natural to fancy people who agree with us > < could fancy a bowl of chowder right now > b. obsolete 2. obsolete a. b. 3. < fancy that > or to attract attention (as to a point of view) < fancy our embarassment > < just fancy how we felt > 4. 5. < I fancy he will act quickly > 6. < I had such a scare; I fancied that rock was a crouching wolf > — often used with to be < I fancied myself to be a child once more > intransitive verb 1. < idly fancying about all sorts of things as we drowsed in the shade > < let me fancy while I may > 2. obsolete Synonyms: see like, think III. 1. < a fancy display of bad manners > 2. a. < skilled in plain sewing and fancy needlework > < fancy shoes with satin bows and 3-inch heels > b. < fancy peaches packed in heavy syrup > < fancy fresh fruits and vegetables > c. of a gem < fancy diamonds occur in red, green, blue, and golden to brownish yellow and include the most costly gemstones > d. of an animal or plant < fancy goldfish with bulging eyes and immense fins > 3. < fancy sketches of nature > 4. a. < a fancy department stocking notions, bric-a brac, and other fripperies > or in goods of fancy quality < in the long run it often pays to patronize a fancy butcher who properly grades and trims his meats > < a fancy delicatessen > b. < they ask fancy prices at that stand but everything is fresh and good > : premium, top; often < during the war fancy rents were paid for mere hovels > 5. < fancy diving > < fancy techniques in schooling horses > 6. of a plant or plant part < fancy carnations > |
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