英语词汇“wishful thinking”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

(b) In modern use in weaker sense: expressing or indicative of a wish; chiefly in wishful thinking, thinking, esp. belief or expectation, that is influenced by one's wishes to the extent that relevant (consciously) known facts are (subconsciously) ignored or distorted; also as adj.; so wishful thinker.

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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > [noun] > unfounded hope

forlorn hopea1643

wish-thinking1930

wishful thinking1932

a wing and a prayer1943

straw-clutching1962

hope-against-hope1968

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > [noun] > unfounded hope > a person given to

wishful thinker1932

1932 Sat. Rev. Lit. (U.S.) 2 July 817/4 At two vitally important points Glenn Frank's incisive analysis fades away in a vague realm of hope or even of wishful thinking.

1940 Illustr. London News 196 498/2 The possibility of any relief in that direction can only exist in the minds of wishful-thinkers.

1940 L. D. Weatherhead This is Victory ii. 58 I do not mean that that which is believed has no other support than man's wishful thinking.

1941 W. H. Auden New Year Let. i. 17 Twelve months ago in Brussels I heard the same wishful-thinking sigh.

1942 C. S. Lewis Screwtape Lett. ix. 50 It all depends on whether your man is..of the wishful-thinking type who can be assured that all is well.

1951 ‘A. Garve’ Murder in Moscow i. 20 He was a woolly wishful-thinker who happened to be inordinately vain as well.

1958 Spectator 6 June 724/1 He [sc. a prisoner] hoarded these glimpses of past happiness, rationing his wishful reminiscing to half an hour a day.

1958 Listener 25 Sept. 478/1 There are some embarrassingly wishful statements... ‘The day when Joyce embarked in Dublin..they were burning his first book... He could see the smoke of the bonfire.’.. Dubliners was not burned: it was pulped.

1970 Guardian 10 Dec. 4/4 It is hard to reconcile this sort of picture with the one presented by the wishful-thinkers in Saigon.

1974 E. Ambler Dr. Frigo ii. 117 I'm not a wishful-thinking idiot.

1980 Sunday Times 30 Mar. (Colour Suppl.) 55/2 An evocation of youth's transitoriness and innocent wishful-thinking.

单词	wishful thinking
释义	> as lemmas wishful thinking (b) In modern use in weaker sense: expressing or indicative of a wish; chiefly in wishful thinking, thinking, esp. belief or expectation, that is influenced by one's wishes to the extent that relevant (consciously) known facts are (subconsciously) ignored or distorted; also as adj.; so wishful thinker. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > [noun] > unfounded hope forlorn hopea1643 wish-thinking1930 wishful thinking1932 a wing and a prayer1943 straw-clutching1962 hope-against-hope1968 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > [noun] > unfounded hope > a person given to wishful thinker1932 1932 Sat. Rev. Lit. (U.S.) 2 July 817/4 At two vitally important points Glenn Frank's incisive analysis fades away in a vague realm of hope or even of wishful thinking. 1940 Illustr. London News 196 498/2 The possibility of any relief in that direction can only exist in the minds of wishful-thinkers. 1940 L. D. Weatherhead This is Victory ii. 58 I do not mean that that which is believed has no other support than man's wishful thinking. 1941 W. H. Auden New Year Let. i. 17 Twelve months ago in Brussels I heard the same wishful-thinking sigh. 1942 C. S. Lewis Screwtape Lett. ix. 50 It all depends on whether your man is..of the wishful-thinking type who can be assured that all is well. 1951 ‘A. Garve’ Murder in Moscow i. 20 He was a woolly wishful-thinker who happened to be inordinately vain as well. 1958 Spectator 6 June 724/1 He [sc. a prisoner] hoarded these glimpses of past happiness, rationing his wishful reminiscing to half an hour a day. 1958 Listener 25 Sept. 478/1 There are some embarrassingly wishful statements... ‘The day when Joyce embarked in Dublin..they were burning his first book... He could see the smoke of the bonfire.’.. Dubliners was not burned: it was pulped. 1970 Guardian 10 Dec. 4/4 It is hard to reconcile this sort of picture with the one presented by the wishful-thinkers in Saigon. 1974 E. Ambler Dr. Frigo ii. 117 I'm not a wishful-thinking idiot. 1980 Sunday Times 30 Mar. (Colour Suppl.) 55/2 An evocation of youth's transitoriness and innocent wishful-thinking. extracted from wishfuladj. < as lemmas
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