| 词汇 | fancy |
| 释义 | fancy verb uk /ˈfæn.si/ us /ˈfæn.si/ fancyverb (LIKE)B1[ T ]UK to want to have or do something: 想要;想做 Do you fancy a drink this evening?你今晚想喝一杯吗？ [ + -ing verb ]I didn't fancy swimming in that water.我不想在那水里游泳。 B2[ T ]UKinformal to be sexually attracted to someone: 爱慕，喜欢 He could tell she fancied him.他看得出她喜欢他。 fancy yourselfUKdisapproving to think you are very attractive or important: 自认为是;自命不凡 That Dave really fancies himself, doesn't he?那个戴夫挺自命不凡的，是吧？ You could tell by the way they strutted around how much they fancied themselves. Look at this photo from our teens. We really fancied ourselves, didn't we? At that time, he was dating a girl who really fancied herself. Chrissie's husband really fancies himself, doesn't he? Do you fancy coming on a day trip to Bath next Saturday?下周六你想去巴斯一日游吗？ Do you fancy going out for a meal after work? What shall we do foodwise - do you fancy going out to eat?我们吃什么——你想出去吃吗？ I thought he fancied me, but I'd completely misread the signals. She knew he fancied her, but preferred to keep their relationship platonic. Wanting things ache for something acquisitive ambitious ambitiously angle for something desperate expense have your eye on somethingidiom hunger hunger after/for something hungrily impulse pine seeker set your heart on something/doing somethingidiom set your sights on somethingidiom shook shopping list sight someone's heart's desireidiom You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Showing arrogance and conceit fancyverb (IMAGINE)[ I or T ]UK to imagine or think that something is so: 想象;认为 He fancies himselfas a bit of a singer.他认为自己多少是个歌手。 [ + to infinitive ]Who do you fancy to win the Cup this year?你认为今年谁会赢得杯赛？ [ + (that) ]literaryI fancied (that) I saw something moving in the corner.我觉得看见角落里有东西在动。 old-fashionedThis isn't the first time this has happened, I fancy.我想，这不是第一次发生这种事了。 fancy!C2old-fashioned an expression of surprise: （表示惊讶）真想不到！ Fancy seeing you here!没想到在这里遇见你！ "They have eight children." "Fancy that(= how surprising)!"“他们有8个孩子。”“真想不到啊！” Imagining and conceiving assume beyond your wildest dreamsidiom blue-sky cognitive map conceivable fertility guess imagine impute something to someone in your mind's eyeidiom inconceivably lay the foundation(s) of/foridiom look on/upon someone/something as something regard reimagine retheorization retheorize revisualization riot throw You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Expressions of surprise Idiomfancy someone's chances fancy adjective uk /ˈfæn.si/ us /ˈfæn.si/ fancyadjective (DECORATIVE)decorative or complicated: 装饰的；花哨的；繁复的 I wanted a simple black dress, nothing fancy.我想要一件简洁的黑色礼服，不要花哨的东西。 The decorations were a little too fancy for my tastes.这种装饰风格过于繁复，不合我的喜好。 fancy cakes花式蛋糕 Complexity advanced all-singing baroque baroquely be more to something than meets the eyeidiom fancily finicky fractally high-tech indirectly non-basic onerousness ornate ornately over-elaborate tortuous tortuously tortuousness twisty ultra-sophisticated fancyadjective (EXPENSIVE)informal expensive: 贵的，昂贵的 We stayed in a fancy hotel near the Champs-Élysées.我们住在香榭丽舍大街附近一家豪华的酒店里。 a fancy restaurant豪华餐厅 costing a lot of money expensiveHe thinks he's special with his expensive suits and fancy shoes. dearUKI find the veg too dear in that supermarket. costlyThey made several costly mistakes, including spending $60 million on shoddy machinery. priceyThe restaurants in town are a bit pricey. exclusiveThey have an apartment in an exclusive part of town. Expensive & luxurious be expensive to do champagne costliness costly expense expensively gold plate grandly lush luxuriant luxurious luxury palatially plush plushly poshly poshness preciousness ritzy unaffordable fancy noun uk /ˈfæn.si/ us /ˈfæn.si/ fancynoun (THING/PERSON YOU LIKE)passing fancy something that you like very much for a short period: 一时的兴趣（或爱好） But for me, parachuting was no passing fancy.但是对我来说，跳伞可不是一时的兴趣。 take a fancy to something/someone to start liking something or someone very much: 喜欢上，爱上 Laura's taken a fancy to Japanese food.劳拉喜欢上了日本料理。 take/tickle your fancyinformal(also USstrike your fancy) If something takes/tickles your fancy, you like it and want to have or do it: 吸引…，中…的意 I looked in a lot of clothes shops but nothing really tickled my fancy.我逛了很多服装店，但没什么衣服让我中意。 fancynoun (IMAGINATION)[ U ]literary the imagination想象（力） See flight of fancy Imagining and conceiving assume beyond your wildest dreamsidiom blue-sky cognitive map conceivable fertility guess imagine impute something to someone in your mind's eyeidiom inconceivably lay the foundation(s) of/foridiom look on/upon someone/something as something regard reimagine retheorization retheorize revisualization riot throw You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Ideas, concepts and theories fancy | American Dictionaryfancy adjective[ -er/-est only ] us/ˈfæn·si/ fancyadjective[-er/-est only] (DECORATIVE)decorative or complicated, or (of restaurants, stores, or hotels) expensive: I wanted a simple black dress, nothing fancy. a fancy hotel fancy noun[ U ] us/ˈfæn·si/ something that you like very much: What's your fancy? Idiomstrike your fancy fancy verb[ T ] us/ˈfæn·si/ fancyverb[T] (IMAGINE)to imagine or think that something is so: When she was young she fancied herself a rebel. fancyverb[T] (LIKE)to like or wish for: There are two things he fancies – fast cars and thunderous music. Examples of fancyfancy A fancy procedure and pretty pictures are not needed, critics will add, to know that brain activity differs between the two groups. Some of them, by the accidents of his reading, loomed out in his fancy disproportionately large by comparison with the rest. We must remember that masque performances were great occasions, replete with distractions - royalty, nobility, fancy dress, beautiful women, glorious jewellery. The most obvious characteristic of mainpiece opera up to 1695 is fancy staging. Is a man in uniform a policeman or a guest at a fancy dress party? The constraint is that the binary tree should be atiguously marked, a fancy name for a non-contiguous marking. A fancy term, it means nothing more at this point than the pervasive concept of the human person. Imaginative fancy or indirect knowledge was rarely enough. The films were superficial and huge sums of money were spent on fancy mechanisms, like animatronics. Muddling through this century, however, we find that the 'conservation ethic' has often been eclipsed by a predilection for fancy 'conservation tools'. The old woman would not listen to such fancy stuff. We may fancy an exotic past that contrasts with a humdrum or unhappy present, but we forge it with modern tools. Rethinking a classic doesn't mean gussying it up with fancy folderol and extraneous trimming so that it no longer bears any resemblance to the original. Such analyses were dangerously susceptible of countenancing individual fancy, undermining a national church. For him, the landscape was not a fancy to be admired and 'observed'. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. 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