| 释义 |
unˈrealize, v.
[un-2 3.]
trans. To make unreal; to deprive of reality.
1804Southey Let. in Life (1850) II. 259 The least breath stirring would have shaken the whole vision, and at once unrealised it. 1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. xv. 331 The painted canvass, and the..too palpable acting, served but to unrealize what I saw, and to remind me that I was merely in a theatre. 1875Lowell Spenser Prose Wks. 1890 IV. 337 His fancy, habitually moving about in worlds not realized, unrealizes everything at a touch.
Hence unˈrealizer; unˈrealizing ppl. a.
1814Southey Roderick x. 60 The flame..cast upon the leaves A floating, grey, unrealizing gleam. 1845Mozley Ess. (1878) II. 127 How little do we feel the past! On flows Time, the great unrealiser. a1859De Quincey Posth. Wks. (1893) II. 204 This postulate of fiction..would have operated with an unrealizing effect upon all that followed. |