Fantastic

(adj.) extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers; 'a fantastic trip to the Orient'; 'the film was fantastic!'; 'a howling success'; 'a marvelous collection of rare books'; 'had a rattling conversation about politics'; 'a tremendous achievement' .

(adj.) extravagantly fanciful in design, construction, appearance; 'Gaudi's fantastic architecture' .

(adj.) existing in fancy only; 'fantastic figures with bulbous heads the circumference of a bushel'- Nathaniel Hawthorne .

(adj.) fanciful and unrealistic; foolish; 'a fantastic idea of his own importance' .

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• We do know, however, that he arrived at a gen eralization--fantastic to most minds--that all things are water. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The words had a fantastic sound in his own ears. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• But this is how one historian, soaked with the fantastic political ideas of our times, is pleased to write of this evil expedition. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• We can say nothing of the splendour and beauty of the former, nor of the fantastic invention and wit of the latter. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Far down the lake were fantastic pale strings of colour, like beads of wan fire, green and red and yellow. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• But let me see thee use the dress and costume of thy English ancestry--no short cloaks, no gay bonnets, no fantastic plumage in my decent household. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• But grief renders one childish, despair fantastic. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• We turned, and, sure enough, there they were--three fantastic pirates armed with guns. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It is eighty feet high and is fronted like some fantastic pagan temple. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• They had but little clothing, but such as they had was fanciful in character and fantastic in its arrangement. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I think, Watson, he remarked at last, that of all our cases we have had none more fantastic than this. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• But the wager of battle is complete, even according to the fantastic fashions of Norman chivalry--Is it not, Father Aymer? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• He fixed his eagle eye on a fantastic vision of nations rightly struggling to be free. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It was always pleasantly droll to see Pa and Bella together; but on this present evening her husband thought her more than usually fantastic with him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Fantastic failures of journeys occupied me until the day dawned and the birds were singing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Those were the days when no one built a new edifice for station purposes; that would have been deemed a fantastic extravagance. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• It was full of odd, fantastic expression, of double meanings, of evasions, of suggestive vagueness. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• I cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes, he said. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Yet dressed in this fantastic garb, these people laughed at my costume. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Without taking notice of this fantastic way of talking, my lady wished the gentlemen good-night. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The fantastic nature of her passion, which lowered her as an intellect, raised her as a soul. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Not grotesquely fantastic are the forms of cliff and foliage, not violently vivid the colouring of flower and bird. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• His greatest service to science was a fantastic book, _The New Atlantis_. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• A thought struck me--one of those queer fantastic thoughts that will sometimes strike solitary people. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Mark me--I say this--perhaps mine own sentiments of honour are not less fantastic, Rebecca, than thine are; but we know alike how to die for them. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• There was a serious pleading in Lydgate's tone, as if he felt that she would be injuring him by any fantastic delays. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The satiric comedy of The Honey Bees, was a fantastic piece based upon an incident which had lately occurred in Melnos. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Yet it did seem (though not to him, for he saw nothing of it) as if fantastic hope could take as strong a hold as Fact. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.

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