| 词汇 | wishful-thinking |
| 释义 | wishful thinking noun[ U ] uk /ˌwɪʃ.fəl ˈθɪŋ.kɪŋ/ us /ˌwɪʃ.fəl ˈθɪŋ.kɪŋ/ the imagining or discussion of a very unlikely future event or situation as if it were possible and might one day happen: 如意算盘;痴心妄想 "Do you think you might be in line for promotion?" "No, it's just wishful thinking."“你是否认为自己会获得提升？”“不，那只不过是想入非非而已。” Hoping and hopefulness appealingly beyond someone's expectations boosterish boosterism bright spot fancy hope springs eternalidiom hopeful hopefully hopefulness ill it's an ill wind (that blows nobody any good)idiom over-optimism over-optimistic over-optimistically pin your hopes on something/someoneidiom pious pipe dream positively wing wishful thinking | American Dictionarywishful thinking noun[ U ] us/ˈwɪʃ·fəl ˈθɪŋ·kɪŋ/ the imagining of an unlikely future event or situation that you wish were possible: We talked about buying a house someday, but right now it’s just wishful thinking. Examples of wishful thinkingwishful thinking In a sense, caps are the embodiment of wishfulthinking. Such a reading of history, however, would be little more than wishfulthinking. He considers them to be driven by ideology and guilty of wishfulthinking. However, the dangers of such wishfulthinking, and of surrendering her subjectivity, are more apparent than ever. There is perhaps an element of necromantic wishfulthinking. This phenomenon was labeled "overconfidence bias" or "miscalibration" and was attributed to confirmation biases or wishfulthinking. It seems to me that the 'cross-cultural communicative ability' alluded to here is, in the best of cases, akin to wishfulthinking. But the strategy they advocated contained a considerable amount of wishfulthinking. Whether a justifiable prediction or wishfulthinking, the neurosciences have gained momentum. How much of this was wishfulthinking or an exercise in self-promotion? Rather, we need to build complexity into the models if we want them to reflect reality (rather than wishfulthinking or traditional disciplinary boundaries). People may convince themselves, through wishfulthinking, that they really do not want that third beer. His entire discourse on relatedness, trustworthiness, and commitment proved nothing more than wishfulthinking. However, wishfulthinking and imperceptive, but nonetheless ingenuous, hopes dominate what should have been meticulous scholarship. This position has attracted criticism from some for appearing to turn legal theory into a form of wishfulthinking. See all examples of wishful thinking These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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