查询词典 fancy-bred

Take/catch the fancy of

投合…。。的心意

Common people may pass the seemingly mundane things without any care, yet such things can catch the fancy of photographers and emerge as something remarkable.

凡人司空见惯，甚至视而不见的东西，在摄影家的眼睛里却往往大有看头，别有深长的意味。

Keynes compared them to "those newspaper competitions in which the competitors have to pick out the six prettiest faces from a hundred photographs, the prize being awarded to the competitor whose choice most nearly corresponds to the average preferences of the competitors as a whole; so that each competitor has to pick, not those faces which he himself finds prettiest, but those that he thinks likeliest to catch the fancy of the other competitors."

凯恩斯把金融市场比作"报纸上举行的某种比赛。比赛的规则是参赛者必须从一百张相片中挑出六张最漂亮的脸孔，但是大奖将被授予这样的参赛者，他选的脸孔，最最贴近参赛者全体挑选的平均脸孔；因此，每一个参赛者在挑选时，都不应挑选那些他自己认为最漂亮的脸孔，而应挑选那些他认为最可能讨其他参赛者喜欢的脸孔。"

If you see something that catches your fancy I'll buy it for you.

如果你看见合意的东西，我可以替你买下来。

Of course I will get married; I'll find a girl who catches my fancy .

我当然会结婚，会找到一个我中意的姑娘。

He had been trying to fancy them causeless, but could not.

他曾试图想象他们无缘无故，但不能。

His fears had been ever since growing upon him. He had been trying to fancy them causeless, but could not.

他一直试图使自己相信没有理由感到恐惧，可他未能做到。

But there are so many celebrities I fancy.

但是有太多我喜欢的名人啦。

Just like that, as if she were a fancy chandelier.

就像那样的，就像她是一个美妙的吊灯。

Just that, as if she were a fancy chandelier.

就这样，就像她是一个有趣的枝形吊灯。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。