apleasantsituationthat youenjoythinkingabout but isunlikelytohappen, or theactivityofimaginingthings like this:
幻想；想象
Steve'sfavouritefantasy was to own abighouseand aflashycar.史蒂夫最爱幻想拥有一座大房子和一辆奢华轿车。
sexualfantasies性幻想
Sheretreatedinto a fantasyworld, where she could be anything shewanted.她遁入了幻想世界，在那里她想要成为什么都可以。
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atypeofstoryorliteraturethat is set in animaginaryworld, ofteninvolvingtraditionalmythsandmagicalcreaturesand sometimesideasoreventsfrom therealworld,especiallyfrom themedievalperiodofhistory:
Readers, it appears, were invited to engage in reflexivefantasyby associating their desired state of being with that of a trained psychologist.
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They can also contain playful andfantasythemes, as well as wished-for or feared events.
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He acknowledges the ways in which science is a "destroyer," annihilating belief in myth, legend, andfantasywith its empirical outlook.
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The idea has lent itself to nationalist fantasies, enabling recent identities to be projected far back into the past.
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But thisfantasyalso exacts a price in fear.
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But rejecting thefantasyin favour of realistic stagings and speech-like intonations, it cuts itself off from its very essence.
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For building this image, palpablefantasymay be more valuable than circumstantial evidence.
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This vision is not just an outrageousfantasy, in which anxieties about performers' real power have given rise to unpleasant falsifications.
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Modelling childhood causes of paranormal belief and experience : childhood trauma and childhoodfantasy.
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This chapter explores the flipside of the symbolistfantasythat voices might float free from bodies.
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Far from reality, no physicist can do what is done in this movement; it becomesfantasywhen the composer modifies nature's universal laws and constants.
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Perhaps it was afantasyof the time, but it was also characteristic of other nations' interactions.
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Imagining the life-span : from premodern miracles to postmodern fantasies.
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No matter what the vantage point, the opera can be seen as igniting and sustaining a racialfantasythat entranced playwright, composer and operagoers alike.
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We believe that one reason for this difficulty is thatfantasyis a background mental state which has to compete with foreground input-output processing.
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Collocationswithfantasy
fantasy
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fantasy land
My reply did not come from fantasy land.
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fantasy literature
Wizards are primarily based on wizards from assorted fantasy literature.
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fantasy role-playing
According to available descriptions, this game was a massively multiplayer fantasy role-playing game, changed in midstream to a single-player science-fiction role-playing game.
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