Fanciful

(adj.) indulging in or influenced by fancy; 'a fanciful mind'; 'all the notional vagaries of childhood' .

(adj.) having a curiously intricate quality; 'a fanciful pattern with intertwined vines and flowers' .

(adj.) not based on fact; unreal; 'the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties'- F.D.Roosevelt; 'a small child's imaginary friends'; 'to create a notional world for oneself' .

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• Much of their theory must seem to the modern mind merely fanciful and unsupported speculation. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• I like you to be fanciful about your mother's health. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• It might as well be something about Mars or about some fanciful country unless it fructifies in the individual's own life. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• But this is the fanciful side of the situation. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• No graceful little adornment, no fanciful little device, however trivial, anywhere expressed her influence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• I had expected some extravagant proposition, and remained silent awhile, collecting my thoughts that I might the better combat her fanciful scheme. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• They had but little clothing, but such as they had was fanciful in character and fantastic in its arrangement. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to the sound produced by cocking a rifle. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• I am afraid I am sometimes very fanciful and troublesome. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• But behold, they were not wild enough--they were not fanciful enough--they have not told half the story. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Formerly she had been a light-hearted infant, fanciful, but gay and childish. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• You know, papa, you said the other day I was getting fanciful. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• But there was now a great darkness besides; and that invested the storm with new terrors, real and fanciful. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The thing was incomprehensible to Tip, and altogether a fanciful notion. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• These are very fanciful ideas, to be mentioned only to be dismissed. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• No doubt you thought me fanciful. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• A further step in this line brought Edison to the aerophone, around which the Figaro weaved its fanciful description. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I am not a fanciful person, but I give you my word that I seemed to hear Moriarty's voice screaming at me out of the abyss. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• It is inclosed in a sort of little temple of yellow and white stone, of fanciful design. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• My dears, here interrupted Mrs. Pryor, does it not strike you that your conversation for the last ten minutes has been rather fanciful? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Give me five minutes of your attention; and I will undertake to show you that Science sanctions my proposal, fanciful as it may seem. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Especially when _one_ of those two is such a fanciful, troublesome creature! 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• In my fanciful times, I fancy that they might be anywhere; and I almost expect to see their dear faces on the bridges or the quays. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• He found, when he looked up, that this sensation was not a fanciful one. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• But the talk of the two was anything but fanciful, as they were engaged in discussing their projected tour in Levantine waters. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• The bedstead, chairs, and lounges, were of bamboo, wrought in peculiarly graceful and fanciful patterns. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The floors were laid in fanciful figures wrought in mosaics of many-colored marbles. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It finds its greatest application in artistic and fanciful work in inks of various colors, and its development into chromo-lithography in the Nineteenth Century has grown into a fine art. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• I explained her character to you, and how she interposed some ridiculous fanciful notions in the way of our being as respectable as I tried for. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• It is surely rather fanciful. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.

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