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a pleasant situation that you imagine but that is unlikely to happen 幻想；想象 He spoke of his childhood fantasies about becoming a famous football player. 他談起兒時想成爲足球明星的幻想。
Extra ExamplesHe was able to play out his fantasy of pop stardom. 他能夠實現他的流行歌星夢。 He was willing to indulge her wildest fantasies. 他願意讓她沉浸在她自己荒誕不經的夢想中。 I cherished the fantasy that I might one day have a son who would fulfil the dream. 我幻想有朝一日我有一個兒子，他將會實現這個夢想。 My childhood fantasies were finally fulfilled. 我童年的夢想最終實現了。 She didn't entertain silly fantasies about love at first sight. 一見鐘情這樣的愚蠢想法，她沒有。 She had a fantasy about going to live on a South Pacific island. 她曾幻想到南太平洋的一個島上居住。 She had woven a whole fantasy about living in a cottage by the sea. 她編織了一個在海邊小屋裏居住的夢。 She was seething with anger and filled with revenge fantasies. 她怒火中燒，滿腦子都是複仇的念頭。 They indulge in teenage fantasies about being the greatest rock band in the world. 他們沉浸在少年的幻想中，覺得自己成了世界上最了不起的搖滾樂隊。 adolescent fantasies of power, glory and recognition 青春期對權力、榮譽與社會認可的幻想 the ultimate human fantasy: being able to fly 人類的終極幻想是：能夠飛翔 She dismissed the idea as a wild fantasy. 她覺得那個想法太過不切實際而不予考慮。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- mere
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a product of your imagination 想象的産物；幻想作品 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- mere
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the act of imagining things; a person’s imagination 幻想；想象 This is a work of fantasy. 這是部幻想作品。 Stop living in a fantasy world. 别再生活在幻想世界中了。 I live in the real world, not fantasy land. 我生活在真實世界, 而非夢幻世界
Extra ExamplesShe was no longer able to distinguish between fantasy and reality. 她再也無法區分幻想和現實了。 Most of what they told us was pure fantasy. 他們告訴我們的大多都是幻想。 She felt she had entered a world of fantasy. 她感到自己已進入了一個虛幻的世界。 The idea belonged in the realms of fantasy. 這樣的構思純屬幻想。 children that project their own identities onto fantasy figures 把自己想象成各種夢想中的人物的孩子們
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- mere
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a type of story that is set in a world, or a version of our world, that does not really exist and involves magic, monsters, etc. 幻想： 在一個世界或我們的世界中設定的一種故事，它實際上並不存在，涉及魔術，怪獸等。She wrote a series of fantasy novels filled with wizards, witches and dragons. 她寫了一系列充滿巫師、女巫和龍的奇幻小說。
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(in compounds 構成複合詞 a competition in which you choose players to make your own imaginary team, and score points according to the performance of the real players 夢幻足球（虛幻比賽方式，組成想象中的球隊，根據球員的實際比賽表現計算得分） In his personal time, Stephen blogs for several fantasy hockey leagues. 在他的個人時間裏，斯蒂芬爲幾個夢幻曲棍球聯盟寫博客。
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French fantasie, from Latin phantasia, from Greek ‘imagination, appearance’, later ‘phantom’, from phantazein ‘make visible’. From the 16th to the 19th cents the Latinized spelling phantasy was also used.