| 单词 | 想象中 |
| 释义 | 〔faerie〕The land or realm of the fairies.仙境：想象中的地域或王国〔hobbit〕An imaginary creature resembling a diminutive human being, having some rabbitlike characteristics, and being naturally peace-loving, domestic, and sociable.小矮人：一种类似于矮人的想象中的动物，有一些兔子的特征，生性酷爱和平、驯服及易于交往〔Barmecidal〕After Barmecide , a nobleman in The Arabian Nights, who served an imaginary feast to a beggar 源自 Barmecide ， 一千零一夜 中的一个王子，请乞丐吃了一顿想象中的宴席 〔gremlin〕Elves, goblins, and trolls seem to be the timeless creations of the distant past,but gremlins were born in the 20th century.In fact,gremlin is first recorded only in the 1920's, as a Royal Air Force term for a low-ranking officer or enlisted man saddled with oppressive assignments. Said to have been invented by members of the Royal Naval Air Service in World War I,gremlin is used in works written in the 1940's for "an imaginary gnomelike creature who causes difficulties in aircraft.”The word seems likely to have been influenced bygoblin, but accounts of its origin are various and none are certain.One source calls in Fremlin beer bottles to explain the word;another, the Irish Gaelic wordgruaimín, "ill-humored little fellow.” Whatever the word's origin,it is certain that gremlins have taken on a life of their own.小精灵、小妖怪和侏儒似乎很久以前就被创造出来而且流传至今，而小妖精一词则是20世纪的产物。事实上，gremlin 在20世纪20年代首次被记录下来时为皇家空军对一个承受严酷任务的低级军官或征召者的称呼。 据说这是在第一次世界大战中由皇家空军的成员创造出来的。1904年，gremlin 被用在书面的作品中， 意为“一种想象中的在飞机上制造麻烦的小生物。”这个词看起来很有可能受了goblin 一词的影响， 但对其词源说法不一，莫衷一是。一种说法用弗来姆林啤酒瓶来解释这一词；而另一种认为爱尔兰凯尔特语词汇gruaimin 意为“坏脾气的小家伙”为其词源。 不管源自何处，有一点是肯定的，小妖精自身有其生命力〔bumpkin〕The termbumpkin may at one time have been directed at an entire people rather than that segment of the population living in a rural area. The first recorded appearance of the word in 1570 is glossed by the Latin wordBatavus, "Dutchman,” thus making plausible the suggestion thatbumpkin may come from either the Middle Dutch word bommekijn, "little barrel,” or the Flemish word boomken, "shrub.” The connection would be between a squat object and the short, rotund figure of the Dutchman in the popular imagination.Any bumpkin would surely prefer this etymology to another suggestion thatbumpkin is a derivative of bum, "the rear end.” 单词bumpkin 有一个时期意指住在乡下的所有人而不是其中的一部分， 这个词于1570年第一次出现是用拉丁词Batavus “荷兰人”注解的。 使得下面这个解释似乎是说得通的，即bumpkin 有可能起源于中古荷兰词语 bommekijn “小圆桶”的意思，或起源于法兰德斯语 boomken “灌木”的意思。 这两者之间的联系在一般的想象中就如同一个矮胖的物体同圆胖的荷兰人间的关系。而任何一个乡下人都确信无疑这个词源有另一个解释，即bumphin 是从 bum 演变而来的，该词的意思是“尾部末梢” 〔amaranth〕An imaginary flower that never fades.不凋花：想象中不凋谢的花〔visionary〕Existing in imagination only; imaginary.出于空想的：只存在于想象中的；想象的〔fantasyland〕A place conjured up by the imagination, often populated by bizarre inhabitants:幻境：想象中的地方，通常居住着奇怪的居民：〔dystopia〕An imaginary place or state in which the condition of life is extremely bad, as from deprivation, oppression, or terror.反面乌托邦：一个想象中的由于掠夺、压迫或恐怖造成生活条件极差的国家和地区〔nonentity〕Something that does not exist or that exists only in the imagination.虚构的东西：不存在的事物或只存在在于想象中的事物〔bunyip〕An imaginary monster inhabiting swamps and lagoons.沼泽怪兽：一种想象中的西自于沼泽地和水池里的怪物〔wonderland〕A marvelous imaginary realm.仙境：美妙的想象中的王国〔pantomime〕pantomine a story on the stage; pantomimed "baby" by cradling an imaginary infant.在舞台上表演哑剧故事；通过把一个想象中的小孩放在摇篮里的手势表示“小孩”的意思〔vampire〕Dracula might terrify some younger members in the audience of a horror film,but we know he is an imaginary creature.The wordvampire, however, comes to us from other words and other times, when these bloodsucking reanimated corpses were considered real. The word entered English by way of French (vampire ) and German ( Vampir ), but it came into German from an Old West Slavic source of the form.vŭmpir. The wordvampire is first recorded in English in a work written before 1734. 德拉库拉可能会吓住恐怖电影的年轻观众们，但是我们知道他是个想象中的怪物。但是当这些吸血的复活尸体被认为是真的时，vampire 这个词却来自其它的词和其它时间。 这个词是从法语(vampire )和德语( Vampir )中被引进英语来的， 但它是从古西斯拉夫语中以vumpir 的形式被引进到德语中来的。 Vampire 这个词在英语中首先以文字形式出现，是在创作于公元1734年以前的作品当中 〔imaginary〕Having existence only in the imagination; unreal.想象中的，虚幻的：只在想象中存在的；不真实的〔Escher〕Dutch artist whose lithographs and woodcuts depict imaginary metamorphoses, geometric distortions, and architectural impossibilities.艾歇尔，毛（里蒂斯）·科（内利乌斯）：(1898-1972) 荷兰艺术家，他的石板画和木刻画描绘了想象中的变形、不规则的几何形状以及在建筑上不可能实现的几何形状〔supposed〕the site of a hypothetical colony;想象中的殖民地点；〔Gulliver〕An Englishman who travels to the imaginary lands of Lilliput, Brobdingnag, and Laputa, and the country of the Houyhnhnms in Jonathan Swift's satireGulliver's Travels (1726). 格列佛：在乔纳森·斯威夫特的讽刺作品格列佛游记 （1726年）中，一个曾漫游过想象中的小人国、大人国、浮岛和马国的英国人 〔romantic〕Not based on fact; imaginary or fictitious:虚构的：没有事实根据的；想象中的或不真实的： |
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