wishful thinking

wishful thinkinginterpretation of facts, actions, words, etc. as one would like them to be rather than as they really are 如意算盘；主观臆想 * It's wishful thinking to imagine you can learn a foreign language without hard work. 不下苦功夫就想学好一门外语，那是痴心妄想。

• wavelength shifter
• Ecua.
• through the medium of
• curb roofs
• fermiums
• meq.
• watchkeeping
• West Indies
• arts liberaux
• hallucinates
• ever so/ever such a
• dogmatisms
• mopstick
• senescence
• corpus linguistics
• shited
• bemusement
• backslapping
• -blooded
• preoccupiedly
• iodizer
• headplates
• professest
• licencing
• to a hairline
• Little dragon
• artificial script
• -cephalous
• douk
• classicisms
• omnidirectional antenna
• emoting
• toponomastics
• stock excuse / question / remark etc
• db.
• grey crows
• photisms
• consistorial
• transport stream
• speak-your-weight machine
• medicating
• Honeycomb structures
• sizably
• acclimatising
• master batch
• microclines
• Sigua
• mythologised
• steam-engine
• tent-pegging
• squeezest
• linotypers
• Anthocerotales
• objectivizing
• rounding
• perpetual scholar
• sensitized
• fictions
• dialogist
• moisturize
• leaking mode
• bide tryst
• biomathematician
• retrospect
• tholis
• slinger
• here and now
• redemptional
• transfer company
• peneplanations
• shoot the messenger
• king's peace
• sight unseen
• be of the opinion that…
• canton
• shoddy dropper
• greenshoe
• beaten out
• boothmen
• rubbish
• nag at
• remitment
• vagabondish
• fall over oneself
• white Christmases
• palatially
• collective fruit
• savak
• solid angle
• hot-bulb engine
• Laservision
• broadswords
• cariocas
• the prodigal son
• narviks
• Canaanites
• shrinker
• trick someone/thing out（或up） （一般作be tricked out）
• Greek gift
• shaftings