| 单词 | fantasy |
| 释义 | fantasy (once / 279 pages) nv A fantasy is something you imagine, which might involve dragons, unicorns, or an imaginary best friend. If you live in a fantasy world, you're not worrying much about reality — pleasant, maybe, but not very practical. Fantasy is dreams and imagination. In a football fantasy league, you can create your own dream team. In literature, fantasy — a genre similar to science fiction — might include a story about a three-headed squirrel and a bionic aardvark who fall in love on a planet made entirely of strawberries. Romance can be fantasy, too, according to a Billy Joel song: "It's just a fantasy. It's not the real thing. But sometimes a fantasy is all you need." WORD FAMILYfantasy: fantasied, fantasies, fantasise, fantasist, fantasize, fantastic, fantastical, fantasying+/fantasist: fantasists/fantasize: fantasized, fantasizes, fantasizing/fantastic: fantasticly/fantastical: fantastically USAGE EXAMPLESThrow just six touchdowns into the mix, and this was a lost fantasy season for Gurley and his owners. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) There are many other examples including those of second rate scientists or non-scientists finding high-profile media venues to spin their fantasies. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) So how did the Norman Rockwell fantasy align with unabashed greed and narcissism? Salon(Jan 02, 2017) 1n imagination unrestricted by reality a schoolgirl fantasy Syn|Hypo|Hyper phantasy dream, pipe dream a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe) fantasy life, phantasy lifean imaginary life lived in a fantasy world fairyland, fantasy world, phantasy worldsomething existing solely in the imagination (but often mistaken for reality) paracosma prolonged fantasy world invented by children; can have a definite geography and language and history imagination, imaginativeness, vision the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses 2n fiction with a large amount of imagination in it she made a lot of money writing romantic fantasies Syn|Hypo|Hyper phantasy science fiction literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society cyberpunka genre of fast-paced science fiction involving oppressive futuristic computerized societies fiction a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact 3n something many people believe that is false Syn|Hypo|Hyper fancy, illusion, phantasy bubble an impracticable and illusory idea ignis fatuus, will-o'-the-wispan illusion that misleads wishful thinkingthe illusion that what you wish for is actually true misconception an incorrect conception 4v indulge in fantasies Syn|Hyper fantasise, fantasize, phantasy conceive of, envisage, ideate, imagine form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case |
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