fantasy

fantasy
(pl. -ies)
  1. [mass noun]the faculty or activity of imagining things, especially things which are impossible or improbable
    幻想，空想
    his researches had moved into the realms of fantasy.
    他的研究已转入空想领域。
    ■the product of this faculty or activity
    幻想（或空想）之物
    the scene is clearly fantasy.
    这场景无疑只是幻想。
    ■[count noun]a fanciful mental image, typically one on which a person dwells at length or repeatedly and which reflects their conscious or unconscious wishes
    （长时间或反复的）幻想；期望
    the notion of being independent is a child's ultimate fantasy.
    独立的想法是孩子最大的梦想。
    ■[count noun]an idea with no basis in reality
    空想
    it is a misleading fantasy to suggest that the bill can be implemented.
    说这法案能实施是误导人的不切实际的想法。
    ■a genre of imaginative fiction involving magic and adventure, especially in a setting other than the real world
    魔幻小说
  2. a musical composition, free in form, typically involving variation on an existing work or the imaginative representation of a situation or story; a fantasia
    幻想曲
(-ies, -ied)
  1. [with obj.](poetic/literary)imagine the occurrence of; fantasize about
    (诗，文)想像，幻想
语源
  1. late 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
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