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atlantis

/at-lan-tis/US // ætˈlæn tɪs //UK // (ətˈlæntɪs) //

亚特兰蒂斯,阿特兰迪斯,阿特拉斯,大洋洲

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a legendary island, first mentioned by Plato, said to have existed in the Atlantic Ocean west of Gibraltar and to have sunk beneath the sea, but linked by some modern archaeologists with the island of Thera, the surviving remnant of a much larger island destroyed by a volcanic eruption c1500 b.c.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as infantasy
Synonyms
delusion错觉,妄想,妄念,幻想fancy花式,幻想,花哨的,幻想的illusion幻象,幻想,幻觉,幻影nightmare噩梦,恶梦,梦魇,寎月reverie遐想,遐思,梦境,遐想曲vision愿景,视觉,视野,视力apparition幽灵,幻影,幻觉,幻象appearance外观,外貌,样子,外观设计bubble泡沫,泡泡,气泡,泡沫化chimera嵌合体,拟态,嵌合剂,蛹虫草conceiving孕育,孕期,孕育着,怀孕creativity创作,创意,创造性,创造力daydream白日梦,白日做梦,做白日梦,白昼梦envisioning设想,憧憬,预想,想象力fabrication制造,制作,加工,虚构fairyland仙境,蓬莱仙境,仙乡,仙界fantasia幻想曲,幻境,幻觉,幻想之国figment幻影,幻象,幻像,形象flight飞行,飞行篇,飞行器hallucination幻觉,幻象,幻听,幻想imaginativeness想象力,想像力,想象力丰富,想象力丰富的人imagining想象力,想象,想像力,想像invention发明,发明创造,发明的,发明的东西mirage蜃楼,幻觉,海市蜃楼,蜃景objectifying物化,客观化,对象化,客体化originality独创性,原创性,创意,原创rainbow彩虹,虹膜,虹彩,云彩trip旅行,旅程,旅程中,旅行中utopia乌托邦,宇宙空间vagary流言蜚语,变幻莫测,变幻无常,飘忽不定air castle空中城堡,空气城堡,空气堡垒,空中堡垒flight of imagination想象力的飞行,想象力的飞翔,想象力的飞扬,想象力的飞跃fool's paradise傻子的天堂,傻瓜天堂,傻子天堂,愚公移山的天堂head trip头程,头部旅行,头游,头部行程mind trip精神之旅,精神旅行,思想旅行,思想之旅

Examples

  • That eruption might have inspired the legend of the sunken city of Atlantis.

  • That’s an impressive milestone that means the only vehicles that have made more spaceflights than this rocket are the NASA space shuttles Discovery, Atlantis, Columbia, and Endeavor.

  • By God, if that satellite hit Atlantis, they could very well lose the astronauts as they slept.

  • The philosopher, Plato, linked Santorini with the mythical lost city of Atlantis that sank beneath the waves.

  • His 1985 novel Masters of Atlantis concerns the plight of the Gnomons, a group dedicated to sharing the mysteries of Atlantis.

  • In Masters of Atlantis, newspaper people “treat as pests those who walk in off the street with inquiries, or even news.”

  • The Shroud is generally lumped in with silly-season subjects, such as Atlantis, yetis, and UFOs.

  • Yet, unlike such Grail-oriented conspiracies (and Atlantis, yetis and UFOs), the Shroud very definitely exists.

  • The same writer says that the Athenians waged war with the inhabitants of Atlantis, and might therefore have heard of America.

  • To the student of those days a mysterious drowned Atlantis again rose splendid from the waves of the great deep.

  • Sooner or later some hardy sailor would find the surviving peaks of this new Atlantis.

  • Even the words Atlas and Atlantis seem to be foreign to the etymology of the European languages.

  • I dreamed that America had got itself in such trouble that thousands of people were leaving to live in Atlantis.

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