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If something is chimerical, it lives in the mind, not in the world — or it is a plan that cannot really work. People use it for hopes and schemes that sound fine until you try them. It is a quiet, formal word. You will see it in essays and older books more than in messages between friends. The picture behind it is the chimera, a monster in old Greek stories made of mixed animals, so the word still carries a feeling of “this is put together in the head, not found in life.” Though actually, speakers often mean more than “imaginary”: they mean “do not build on this; it will not hold.”
空想的；不切實際的
組成From chimera, from Latin chimaera, from Ancient Greek khímaira, “she-goat.” The English adjective is from around 1638.
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
chimericaladj/kɪˈmɛɹɪkəl/
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Of or pertaining to a chimera.
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Being a figment of the imagination; fantastic (in the archaic sense).
- a chimerical goal
- "Yes; I have a turn both for observation and for deduction. The theories which I have expressed there, and which appear to you to be so chimerical, are really extremely practical—so practical that I depend upon them for my bread and cheese."
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Inherently fantastic; wildly fanciful.
- "You are the most charming person in the world. You are invested with a perfect halo of delight," exclaimed Henrietta. "Miss Churchill has some chimerical notion of honour in her head, but that is over now; your information does not leave a single obstacle in the way of the most perfect happiness that ever wound up a fairy tale...
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biologygeneticsmedicineResulting from the expression of two or more genes that originally coded for separate proteins.
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Impossible to physically produce due to having an impossibly-high saturation or luminosity, but viewable by overlaying an afterimage and a suitably-colored physical image.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。