Quimera in english
Chimera
pronunciation: tʃɪmerə part of speech: noun
pronunciation: tʃɪmerə part of speech: noun
In gestures
quimera = chimera ; straw man ; will-o'-the-wisp ; castle in the air ; fabrication ; straw figure ; smoke and mirrors ; figment.
Example: Librarians should stop chasing the chimera of professionalism, and concentrate on the important work at hand.Example: This has long been known to be a straw man (i.e., an obvious fallacy) to be knocked down.Example: Only by a gigantic change of idea will that century-old will-o'-the-wisp,'function', be seen to be equated with 'critique', for they are one and the same.Example: This is the strongest evidence that his theory is not a castle in the air.Example: The author looks at fabrication, falsification and plagiarism in scientific research.Example: The form this 'hypothesis' has come to take is easily dismissed as a straw figure and serious consideration of the relation between language diversity and thinking has largely tumbled with it.Example: The truth is that the government has relied for years on smoke and mirrors to create the illusion of sound finances in the face of a serious budget deficit.Example: Many hallucinations were of lights and shapes, though some were more elaborate, but in every case, the participants knew that they were figments of their brains.more:
» en busca de quimeras = in pursuit of + windmills .
Example: The article 'In pursuit of windmills: librarians and the determination to instruct' is a contribution to an issue devoted to current trends in information research and theory.» perseguir quimeras = chase + phantoms ; grasp at + shadows .
Example: Fighting isms is like chasing a phantom: What is it? Who is it? Where is it? Why is it?. Example: As is typical of Nigeria the real issue is misconstrued and completely neglected, we again continue to scrape the surface and grasp at shadows.» vivir de quimeras = live in + a dream world .
Example: Don't ever change that -- the ones that live in a dream world are the ones that ended making this world better.