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If an idea is far-fetched, it is extremely unlikely to be true or to happen. The picture in the word is of something “fetched from far away” — brought in from such a distance that it does not fit the facts in front of you. People use it for stories, excuses, and plans that ask you to believe too much. It is a little critical: you are saying the idea is stretched. It is not a compliment. And it is not the same as far-reaching, which is about a big effect, not about being hard to believe.
牽強的；不太可能的
組成far + fetched. Fetched here means “brought.” The idea is that the story has been brought from too far away.
原始詞典資料2 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。
far-fetchedadj/fɑɹˈfɛt͡ʃt/
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obsoleteBrought from far away.
- it may be, if like industry were used, those far fetched druggs would prosper as well with us, as in those countries, whence now we have them […].
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Implausible; not likely; difficult to believe.
- He is full of far-fetched ideas to make money.
- When the honorable member chose to repeat a long list of grievances which he attempted to father upon the present Government, simply because some of the members of it belonged to the late administration, I think it was about the furthest fetched argument he could have got.
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。