When seven of the initial 18 were released early in the investigation, some Canadians wondered if this outrageous conspiracy was real, or fanciful.

该组织首批18人，有7人在调查初期获释，一些加拿大人想知道这些令人发指的阴谋是确有其事，还是异想天开。

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One of the popular misconceptions about honey bees is that their lives are ruled by a queen - or perhaps by even some more fanciful system.

关于蜜蜂的一个流行的错误观念是它们服从蜂后制定的原则或是服从更神奇的制度生活。

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the fanciful one is that, despite huge increases in taxation or vast cuts in spending, the private sector would have borrowed and spent as if no crisis at all had happened.

不切实际的一种是，尽管税收大幅提高或支出骤减，但私人部门还能像从未发生过危机那样照常借债和支出。

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Beatlemaniacs are unlikely to attend, given that any factual inaccuracies or fanciful embellishments will cause them to explode in the aisles.

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And even the most fanciful or beautiful helmet is, at its core, a protective dome.

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Of course, we rarely get to find out whether the theory has any truth or is nothing more than a fanciful narrative created by someone with too much time on their hands.

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