| 单词 | impossible dream |
| 释义 | > as lemmasimpossible dream impossible dream n. a highly desirable yet seemingly unattainable goal or ambition.In later use popularized by the song The Impossible Dream (1965) (from the musical Man of La Mancha): see to dream the impossible dream at dream v.2 Phrases 2. ΚΠ 1847 Liberator 23 July 120/4 It seems..desirable..that it [sc. the female character] should be felt in..great national concerns... This would have been an impossible dream, but in these advanced times [etc.]. 1855 Musical World 30 June 413/1 What an impossible dream is this Utopia of ‘the Future’. 1926 Manch. Guardian 19 Aug. 6/7 That superlatively perfect system where every individual will get automatically just what he earns, no more and no less, is the impossible dream of the Socialist. 1988 New Scientist 1 Sept. 47 (heading) Star wars: the impossible dream. Five years ago, Ronald Reagan astonished the world with his vision of a giant shield in space. 2004 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 25 July 12/3 A true global democracy, in which all of the earth's billions of people actually vote, is an impossible dream. < as lemmas |
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