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chimera 音標拼音: [tʃɪm'ɛrə] n. 吐火怪物,妖怪,狂想 吐火怪物,妖怪,狂想 Chimera n 1: ( Greek mythology) fire- breathing female monster with a lion' s head and a goat' s body and a serpent' s tail; daughter of Typhon [ synonym: { Chimera}, { Chimaera}] 2: a grotesque product of the imagination [ synonym: { chimera}, { chimaera}] Chimera \ Chime" ra\, n.; pl. { Chimeras}. [ L. chimaera a chimera ( in sense 1), Gr. ? a she- goat, a chimera, fr. ? he- goat; cf. Icel. qymbr a yearling ewe.] 1. ( Myth.) A monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon. " Dire chimeras and enchanted isles." -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as, the chimera of an author. -- Burke. [ 1913 Webster] 64 Moby Thesaurus words for " chimera": airy hope, airy nothing, apparition, autism, brainchild, bubble, daydream, deception, delirium, deluded belief, delusion, dereism, dream, dream vision, dreamland, dreamworld, eidolon, false belief, fancy, fantasque, fantasy, fiction, figment, golden dream, hallucination, idle fancy, ignis fatuus, illusion, imagery, imagination, imagining, insubstantial image, invention, maggot, make- believe, misbelief, misconception, mosaic, myth, phantasm, phantom, pipe, pipe dream, pomato, potomato, quixotic ideal, rainbow, romance, self- deceit, self- deception, self- delusion, sick fancy, thick- coming fancies, topato, trick, trip, unreal hope, utopia, vapor, vision, whim, whimsy, wildest dreams, wrong impression A modular, {X Window System}-based
{World-Wide Web} {browser} for {Unix}. Chimera uses the
{Athena} {widget} set so {Motif} is not needed. It supports
forms, inline images, {TERM}, {SOCKS}, {proxy servers},
{Gopher}, {FTP}, {HTTP} and local file accesses. Chimera can
be extended using external programs. New {protocols} can
easily be added and alternate image formats can be used for
inline images (e.g. {PostScript}).
Version 1.60 is available for
{(ftp://ftp.cs.unlv.edu/pub/chimera)}.
{(http://unlv.edu/chimera/)}.
Chimera runs on {Sun} {SPARC} {SunOS} 4.1.x, {IBM} {RS/6000}
{AIX} 3.2.5, {Linux} 1.1.x. It should run on anything with
{X11}R[3-6], {imake} and a {C} compiler.
(1994-11-08)
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