Adjective:

1. indulging in or influenced by fancy;

   "a fanciful mind"
   "all the notional vagaries of childhood"
   

2. not based on fact; unreal;

   "the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties"
   "a small child's imaginary friends"
   "to create a notional world for oneself"
   

3. having a curiously intricate quality;

   "a fanciful pattern with intertwined vines and flowers"
   

1.空想的;异想天开的
If you describe an idea asfanciful, you disapprove of it because you think it comes from someone's imagination, and is therefore unrealistic or unlikely to be true.

e.g. ...fanciful ideas about Martian life...
有关火星生命的奇思异想
e.g. Designing silicon chips to mimic human organs soundsfanciful.
设计硅芯片模仿人的器官听上去是异想天开。

2.奇异的;古怪的;花哨的
If you describe the appearance of something asfanciful, you mean that it is unusual and elaborate rather than plain and simple.

e.g. The economic gloom of the early 1980s was relieved byfanciful 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. 幻想的,想象中的：except that 只是,只可惜;除了 |fanciful 幻想的,想象中的 | apprehend 领会,理解; 逮捕; 忧虑

2. 奇怪的：fancier 空想家 |fanciful 奇怪的 |fancifully 梦想地

3. 想入非非：意 淫 Idea lewd | 想入非非fanciful | 淫 乱 Impurity

• She wears a petticoat..I would it were..of a less fanciful fashion.

  出自：Sir W. Scott

• She smiled at the memory..as at any fanciful object, cameo or painted fan,..valued once.

  出自：E. Bowen

That story about a trip to the moon is fanciful.

那个有关旅行到月球的故事是假想的。

His scheme seems to me fanciful in the extreme.

我觉得他的计划似乎完全是想入非非。

That may be reasonable in theory but it sounds fanciful in practice.

从理论上看这是说得过去的，可实际上却有点异想天开。

You are never fanciful, my dear.

亲爱的，你一点儿也不怪僻。

He had such a fanciful, pictorial way of saying things.

他有一种隐晦曲折、光怪陆离的表达方式。

a fanciful gold border

别出心裁的金色镶边

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。

...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。

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.

He had such a fanciful, pictorial way of saying things.

他有一种隐晦曲折 、 光怪陆离的表达方式.

Mr Graddol says the idea of English being supplanted as the world language is not fanciful.

葛拉多尔表示,英语作为世界语言的地位被取代,这种想法并非不切实际.

The little boy often talks a fanciful pal of him living in his mouth.

这个小男孩儿经常同他嘴里的假象出来的朋友讲话.

Lots of modern people have formed a fanciful picture of the outer space.

很多现代人对外太空有着美好的想象.

With time, systems tended to become less massive and more fanciful.

随着时间的推移, 这种结构慢慢演变得更富有幻想而不再那么厚重.

Imprinted with Halo fanciful and direct , the image is not clear, flat.

痕迹边际有晕虚不干脆, 图像不澄辉, 无条理.

Their interpretations are often fanciful.

他们的解释有时是富于假想的.

That would have been a very fanciful idea.

那样想是很荒唐的.

The wind curled the smoke in fanciful whorls.

风把烟卷成一个个奇怪的旋涡.

That about a trip to the moon is fanciful.

通常认为去月球旅行在本世纪是可能的.

She was fanciful, had all sorts of unspoken preferences, and was easily offe nded.

她喜欢空想, 有着种种不说出口的偏爱, 因而容易生气.

Children are very fanciful.

儿童都很富于幻想.

The purpose of buying such tickets is to materialize their colorful and fanciful dreams.

买彩票的目的是为了实现他们各式各样的发财梦.

You are never fanciful, my dear.

亲爱的,你一点儿也不怪僻.

As a result , they often follow leaders with fancy houses and fanciful clothing.

所以, 他们经常跟那些拥有豪华住宅和穿着花哨衣服的人身后.

It was imaginative waistcoat with exceedingly fanciful glass buttons.

花哨的坎肩上配搭着一些光怪陆离的玻璃钮扣.

Over the parapet showed quaint and fanciful little buildings.

栏杆里有一些古雅精致的小建筑物.

The modern poets have gone back to the fanciful poems of the metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century for many of their images.

现代派诗人就其许多想象又回到了十七世纪极抽象派诗人的意象诗中.