Fantasy



GRE 蓝宝 TOEFL

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 想象, 幻想
• ［英］ n. 想象, 幻想 ( imagination or fancy)
• ［类］ nicety : precision / illusion : fantasy ( 同义: 精密=精细 / 幻觉=幻想)
• ［例］ live in a fantasy world

Webster Collegiate

I. noun also phantasy (plural -sies)

• Etymology: Middle English fantasie — more at fancy
• Date: 14th century
• 1. obsolete hallucination
• 2. fancy; especially the free play of creative imagination
• 3. a creation of the imaginative faculty whether expressed or merely conceived: as
  • a. a fanciful design or invention
  • b. a chimerical or fantastic notion
  • c. fantasia 1
  • d. imaginative fiction featuring especially strange settings and grotesque characters — called also fantasy fiction
• 4. caprice
• 5. the power or process of creating especially unrealistic or improbable mental images in response to psychological need <an object of fantasy>; also a mental image or a series of mental images (as a daydream) so created <sexual fantasies of adolescence>
• 6. a coin usually not intended for circulation as currency and often issued by a dubious authority (as a government-in-exile)

II. verb (-sied; -sying)

• Date: 15th century
• fantasize

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