0 to want to have or do something -- 想要;想做
That Dave really fancies himself, doesn't he? 那個戴夫挺自命不凡的,是吧?
He could tell she fancied him. 他看得出她喜歡他。
[ + -ing verb ] I didn't fancy swimming in that water. 我不想在那水裡游泳。
1 to imagine or think that something is so -- 想像;認為
"They have eight children." "Fancy that (= how surprising)!" 「他們有八個孩子。」「真想不到啊!」
Fancy seeing you here! 沒想到在這裡遇見你!
old-fashioned This isn't the first time this has happened, I fancy. 我想,這不是第一次發生這種事了。
[ + (that) ] literary I fancied (that) I saw something moving in the corner. 我想我看見角落裡有東西在動。
[ + to infinitive ] Who do you fancy to win the Cup this year? 你認為今年誰會贏得杯賽?
2 decorative or complicated -- 裝飾的;花哨的;繁複的
3 expensive -- 昂貴的;豪華的
a fancy restaurant 豪華餐廳
We stayed in a fancy hotel near the Champs-Élysées. 我們住在香榭麗舍大道附近一家豪華的飯店裡。
4 something that you like very much for a short period -- 一時的興趣(或愛好)
5 the imagination -- 想像(力)
For him, the landscape was not a fancy to be admired and 'observed'.
Such analyses were dangerously susceptible of countenancing individual fancy, undermining a national church.
Rethinking a classic doesn't mean gussying it up with fancy folderol and extraneous trimming so that it no longer bears any resemblance to the original.
We may fancy an exotic past that contrasts with a humdrum or unhappy present, but we forge it with modern tools.
The old woman would not listen to such fancy stuff.
Muddling through this century, however, we find that the 'conservation ethic' has often been eclipsed by a predilection for fancy 'conservation tools'.
The films were superficial and huge sums of money were spent on fancy mechanisms, like animatronics.
Imaginative fancy or indirect knowledge was rarely enough.