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单词 chimera
释义
chimera
noun[C]
uk/kaɪˈmɪə.rə/us/kaɪˈmer.ə,kaɪˈmɪr.ə/

chimeranoun[C](MIXTURE)

(alsoChimera)
inGreekmythology(=ancientstories), acreaturewith a lion'shead, a goat'sbody, and a snake'stail:
Hebuiltaclaymodelof themythologicalGreekChimera,partlion,partgoatandpartserpent.
picture of chimera
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biologyspecialized
anorganismthatcontainscellsortissuesfrom two or more differentspecies:
嵌合体
Theclinichascreatedhuman-pig chimeras byaddinghumanstemcellstopigfetuses.
literary
something made up ofpartsof things that are very different from each other:
Thecomposerdescribedtheprojectas "a chimera, a cobbled-togethercreature."
More examples
  • Thebestiaryofmythologicalcreaturesincludesbasilisk, chimera, andsphinx.
  • Animal chimeras have been made foryearsin thestudyofdevelopmentalbiology.
  • This is abrilliantchimera of anovelthatcombinesthedarkmythologyoffantasywith thedelicioussocialcomedyofJaneAusten.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Mythological & legendary characters
  • Abominable Snowman
  • Anancy
  • Andromeda
  • Ares
  • basilisk
  • changeling
  • Cinderella
  • faun
  • giantess
  • gremlin
  • hobbit
  • imp
  • mermaid
  • merman
  • Minerva
  • Neptune
  • Nessie
  • Nike
  • sphinx
  • the Loch Ness Monster
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Mythology: Greek & Roman myth
Genetics
Variety and mixtures

chimeranoun[C](UNLIKELY HOPE)

formalorliterary
ahopeordreamthat is veryunlikelyeverto cometrue:
Is theidealofbanishinghungerthroughouttheworldjust a chimera?在全世界消除饥饿的理想是否只是痴心妄想？
Why dopeoplechasethe chimera offame?
Synonyms
afigmentofsomeone'simagination
illusion
mirageliterary
More examples
  • He called thereport"a chimera ofoptimisticassumptionsand pie-in-the-skyprojections".
  • Thesupposedlowcostof thesystemis something of a chimera.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Hoping and hopefulness
  • appealingly
  • boosterish
  • boosterism
  • cautious
  • cautiously
  • glass
  • hopeful
  • hopefully
  • hopefulness
  • ill
  • it's an ill wind (that blows nobody any good)idiom
  • la-la land
  • over-expectation
  • pinyourhopes onsomething/someoneidiom
  • pipe dream
  • please Godidiom
  • Pollyanna
  • positive
  • trust
  • wing
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Related word

chimerical
(Definition ofchimerafrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
chimera
noun[C]
formal
uk
/kaɪˈmɪə.rə/us
/kaɪˈmɪr.ə/
ahopeordreamthat isextremelyunlikelyeverto cometrue
幻想；妄想，空想
Is theidealofbanishinghungerthroughouttheworldjust a chimera?在全世界消除饥饿的理想是否只是痴心妄想？
biologyspecialized
anorganismthatcontainscellsortissuesfrom two or more differentspecies
嵌合体
an animal-human chimera动物与人的嵌合体

Examplesofchimera

chimera
One of those hurdles, according to some stem cell scientists, is research involving the creation of part-human chimeras.
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Successful rescue of microsurgically produced homozygous uniparental mouse embryos via production of aggregation chimeras.
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The gender chimeras were made by joining male half-faces to female half-faces ; subjects judged which face looked more feminine.
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The age chimeras were made by joining older half-faces to younger half-faces ; subjects judged which face looked younger.
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With these limitations in mind, it becomes important to perform a careful biochemical characterization of any mutants or chimeras used in structural analyses.
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Restricted distribution of tetraploid cells in mouse tetraploiddiploid chimeras.
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Nevertheless, stimuli which use happy-neutral or sad-neutral chimeras would help disentangle any effects of mood-congruent responding and spatial bias.
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In order to evaluate the effect of the affective valence presented in the chimeric stimuli, we added a set of chimeras which presented a negative emotion, namely, anger.
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They want ownership of the patent so that they can stop anyone else from making chimeras, even ones useful to research, because they consider such organisms to be unnatural abominations.
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Insights into development and genetics from mouse chimeras.
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Production of somatic and germline chimeras in the chicken by transfer of early blastodermal cells.
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The primary aim of the current study was to examine whether schizophrenia patients' response to emotion chimeras is affected by the valence of the emotion presented.
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The chimeras were arranged so that the queried trait was on the top for half of the trials and on the bottom for half of the trials.
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Production of sheep-goat chimeras by inner cell mass transplantation.
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Certainly a mechanism for regulating fetal size must exist because aggregation chimeras are not abnormally large at birth despite their origin from several complete preimplantation conceptuses.
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