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airy-fairy
adjective
UKinformaluk /ˌeə.riˈfeə.ri/ us /ˌer.iˈfer.i/
not practical or not based on the situation as it really is: 想象出来的；不切实际的；空洞的
She's talking about buying an old castle in Ireland. It all sounds a bit airy-fairy to me.她说要在爱尔兰买一座古堡。可我觉得她说的这些有点儿不切实际。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Useless and futile
adrift
aimless
aimlessly
aimlessness
be at a loose endidiom
fruitlessly
fruitlessness
futile
futilely
futility
negation
no goodidiom
non-viable
nugatory
ornamental
unrealistic
unrealistically
unseriousness
until you are blue in the faceidiom
unviability
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