fanciful
adj. (指人)富于幻想的; (指物)设计或装饰新颖奇特的; 奇怪的,稀奇的; 不现实
If you describe an idea as fanciful, you disapprove of it because you think it comes from someone's imagination, and is therefore unrealistic or unlikely to be true.
...fanciful ideas about Martian life...
有关火星生命的奇思异想
Designing silicon chips to mimic human organs sounds fanciful.
设计硅芯片模仿人的器官听上去是异想天开。
If you describe the appearance of something as fanciful, you mean that it is unusual and elaborate rather than plain and simple.
The economic gloom of the early 1980s was relieved by fanciful architecture.
20 世纪 80 年代初期的经济萧条气氛因各种奇异古怪建筑的出现而有所缓解。
1. indulging in or influenced by fancy;
2. not based on fact; dubious;
3. having a curiously intricate quality;
The conceive of this program is very fanciful.
这个计划在构思上很有想象力.
Fanciful? Certainly, and it has been imagined before. But in volatile times, imaginings sometimes come true.
天方夜谈? 当然, 以前一直是在想象中的场景. 但是,在动荡不安的时局下, 有时想象也能成为现实.
A riddle in which a fanciful question is answered by a pun.
谜语由一个奇妙的问题组成的谜语,其答案为双关语.
What ordinary people see as fanciful abstractions, professional innovators see as solid possibilities.
普通人视为凭空想像的抽象概念在职业创新者眼里却具有坚实的可能性.
He had a fanciful idea about crossing the Pacific in a barrel.
他有个坐在木桶里横渡太平洋假想的点子.