The clueless stylings, the flights of fancy into odd shapes, the obsession with square versus rounded -- it is a wonderfully colorful history.

笨拙的款式、异想天开的古怪造型和对方形（而不是圆形）的痴迷——真是一段极为多彩的历史。

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With its bravura mix of historical events and inventive flights of fancy, the 650-page novel has long been seen as unfilmable.

历史事件与非现实幻想的精妙结合，使这本650页的小说长久以来被认为不具改编成电影的可能。

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Meanwhile, box-office revenues from cinemas are flat, and TV channels increasingly prefer cheap reality programming to Hollywood's flights of fancy.

同时，院线票房表现平淡，电视频道也越来越倾向于播出廉价的真人节目，而不是好莱坞的奇思妙想。

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Such reconstructions required considerable detective work as well as informed flights of fancy on the part of the re-composers in order to supply material which, in the original fragments, is ambiguous or altogether missing.

ECONOMIST: Thank goodness Edward Elgar��s wishes were disregarded