(pl. -ies)
1
- mass noun the faculty or activity of imagining things, especially things which are impossible or improbable想象（力）：
his researches had moved into the realms of fantasy.
他的研究已转入想象领域。
1.1
- the product of this faculty or activity想象的产物：
the scene is clearly fantasy.
这场景显然是凭空想象出来的。
1.2
- count noun a fanciful mental image, typically one on which a person dwells at length or repeatedly and which reflects their conscious or unconscious wishes（尤指长时间想着的、反映有意识或无意识愿望的）幻想：
the notion of being independent is a child's ultimate fantasy.
独立观念是一个孩子的最美好的幻想。
1.3
- count noun an idea with no basis in reality空想：
it is a misleading fantasy to suggest that the bill can be implemented.
说这法案可以实施是一种误导人的不切实际的想法。
1.4
- a genre of imaginative fiction involving magic and adventure, especially in a setting other than the real world幻想小说。
2
- a musical composition, free in form, typically involving variation on an existing work or the imaginative representation of a situation or story; a fantasia幻想曲。
-ies, -ied
with obj. poetic/literary imagine the occurrence of; fantasize about〈诗, 文〉想象; 幻想。
词源
late Middle English: from Old French fantasie, from Latin phantasia, from Greek 'imagination, appearance', later 'phantom', from phantazein 'make visible'. From the 16th to the 19th cents the Latinized spelling phantasy was also used.