unreal

英 [ʌnˈrɪəl]      美 [ʌnˈriːl]
  • adj. 不真实的;假的;幻想的;虚构的
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unreal (adj.)
c. 1600, "not real," from un- (1) "not" + real (adj.). Meaning "impractical, visionary" is by 1660s. Slang sense of "wonderful, great" is first recorded 1965.
Unreal City,
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
I had not thought death had undone so many.

[Eliot, "The Waste Land," 1922]
1. The violence in those films was too unreal, it was make-believe.
那些影片里的暴力场面太不真实了,都是假的。
2. Oh, I can't explain it. It's just unreal. Everybody is so happy.
啊,我都没法形容。就是太棒了,每个人都很高兴。
3. It was so unreal that I broke into a fit of giggles.
这实在很离奇,我忍不住咯咯笑了起来。
4. It felt so unreal to be talking about our son like this.
真不敢相信我们会这样谈论我们的儿子。
5. It was unreal. Like some crazy childhood nightmare.
这不是真的,就像儿时的某个荒唐的噩梦一样。