Spring rolls, with their fanciful resemblance to gold bars, represent hopes for wealth.

春卷被人们想象为外形类金条的东西，代表着对财富的渴求。

His name may sound as if it comes out of a storybook, but there is nothing fanciful about his laws–they are strict and just.

这听起来像来自一本童话书，但是制定这些法典的国王是很清醒、严厉和公正的。

The Chinese are fond of curiously shaped rocks, and many have been given fanciful names.

中国人喜好奇形怪状的岩石，很多还被冠上千奇百怪的。

We can be odd, fanciful, imaginative and kind.

我们可能古怪、富于想象力，而且很善良。

Labelling Google's LaMDA chatbot as sentient is fanciful. But it's very human to be taken in by machines.

给谷歌的 LaMDA 聊天机器人贴上有感知能力的标签太过不切实际。但被机器欺骗也是人之常情。

Maybe that's fanciful but it certainly is the way I feel about it.

也许源于幻想，但这确实是我的感受。

He would invent fanciful names on the spot.

他会当场造出一些稀奇古怪的货。

And indeed, the prospect of disorder is not wholly fanciful.

事实上，混乱的前景并非完全空穴来风。

In medieval times, fishwives peddled their wares here; today the fanciful terraces are yet another great place to catch views across the city.

中世纪时期，鱼贩会在这里兜售商品，今天，这些花巧漂亮的阳台成为欣赏辽阔城市美景的另一好地方。

A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to the sound produced by cocking a rifle.

是一。它来源于想象中那种酷扳起枪的击铁的声音。

His lawyers have said the trial evidence was inconsistent and fanciful.

他的律师表示，庭审证据不一致，也很荒唐。

Without tuition, the most fanciful academic experiments seem tempting.

没有学费，哪怕是去做了最不切实际的学术实也很诱人。

After a period in which progress was limited to fanciful sketches and small-scale trials, shipowners are now starting to place orders to retrofit existing cargo ships and build wind-assisted vessels. A new age of sail may be in the offing.

在经历了一段仅限于草图构想和小规模试的时期后，船东现在开始下订单改造现有货船并建造风力辅助船舶。航海的新时代可能即将到来。

The historicity of this genre of literature is still hotly debated as to whether it was simply a fanciful metaphor or if it actually reflected the relationships of the upper class at the time.

这种文学体裁的历史性仍然是一激烈的争论，它是否只是一幻想的隐喻，或者它是否真的反映了当时上层阶级的关系。

" After products are repeatedly reduced in size, the manufacturer will come out with a new, larger version of it – sometimes with a fanciful new name, " agrees Edgar Dworsky, a former US consumer rights lawyer and founder of resource guide Consumer World.

前美国消费者权益律师、资源指南 Consumer World 的创始人埃德加·德沃斯基也认为：“在产品尺寸一再缩小之后，制造商会推出一新的、更大的版本——有时还会加上一令人遐想的新。”

But perhaps this is very fanciful; and it may be that she was merely bored with her husband and went to Strickland out of a callous curiosity.

但是也许这都是我的臆测；可能她不过对自己的丈夫感到厌倦，只是出于好奇心（并无任何热情在内）才去我的思特里克兰德。

He assumed that people who lived before him were primitive, with no concept of science, so they created fanciful versions of historical events to explain things they didn't understand.

他认为生活在他之前的人是原始的，没有科学概念，因此他们创造了对历史事件的幻想版本，以解释他们不理解的事物。

To Joseph Marr, the idea that people might one day manufacture ice from water would doubtless have seemed fanciful, if not outright sacrilegious.

将来的某一天人们可能能够用水造冰，这想法对于约瑟夫·马尔来说不仅有些亵渎神灵，而且无疑是天方夜谭。

And I am certainly not a stylist in the English language using arcane words and very fanciful constructions and so on.

当然，我也不是英语语言的设计师，不会使用晦涩难懂的词汇、稀奇古怪的结构等等。

How can it go up hill? How often you have failed before in other fanciful things of the same nature!

那车轮莫非能爬山？面对类稀奇古怪想法，你屡屡受挫究竟多少回！