Fancy

(noun.) a kind of imagination that was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination.

(verb.) have a fancy or particular liking or desire for; 'She fancied a necklace that she had seen in the jeweler's window'.

(adj.) not plain; decorative or ornamented; 'fancy handwriting'; 'fancy clothes' .

录入:玛丽埃塔

• Reply: I fancy, though we never met, that you and I are in fact acquainted, and understand each other perfectly. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• I fancy I am rather a favourite; he took notice of my gown. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Poor Rosamond's vagrant fancy had come back terribly scourged--meek enough to nestle under the old despised shelter. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He said as much in our short interview, and I fancy that he meant it. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• I sometimes have sick fancies, she went on, and I have a sick fancy that I want to see some play. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Her surprise increased with her indifference: he almost fancied that she suspected him of being tainted with foreignness. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Elinor sighed over the fancied necessity of this; but to a man and a soldier she presumed not to censure it. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• Hanging about the doorway (I fancied,) were slouchy Pompeiian street-boys uttering slang and profanity, and keeping a wary eye out for checks. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• As it was, you would have fancied he was a flourishing, large parson of the Church of England. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• At first they were very cheerful and talked much; but after a while, Bella fancied that her husband was turning somewhat thoughtful. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Evelyn was the only mirthful creature present: he sat on Clara's lap; and, making matter of glee from his own fancies, laughed aloud. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I sometimes have sick fancies, she went on, and I have a sick fancy that I want to see some play. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Her simple little fancies shrank away tremulously, as fairies in the story-books, before a superior bad angel. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• You are desperate, full of fancies, and wilful; and you misunderstand. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I used to call the fire at home, her books, for she was always full of fancies--sometimes quite wise fancies, considering--when she sat looking at it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• How could we help fancying it was the right way out? 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• How I could so long a time be fancying myself! 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• I inquired, fancying that I had discovered in the incurable grief of bereavement, a key to that same aged lady's desperate ill-humour. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The check was handed back to him, and Edison, fancying for a moment that in some way he had been cheated, went outside to the large steps to let the cold sweat evaporate. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• It puzzles me now to remember with what absurd sincerity I doated on this little toy, half fancying it alive and capable of sensation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• By the by; you were quite a pigeon-fancier. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a better grown goose. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• A bird-fancier's? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Few would readily believe in the natural capacity and years of practice requisite to become even a skilful pigeon-fancier. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The human being is regarded with the eye of a dog- or bird-fancier, or at best of a slave-owner; the higher or human qualities are left out. 柏拉图. 理想国.

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