单词 | dream |
释义 | dream n. & v. --n   1. a a series of pictures or events in the mind of a sleeping person. b the act or time of seeing this. c (in full waking dream) a similar experience of one awake.   2. a day-dream or fantasy.   3. an ideal, aspiration, or ambition, esp. of a nation.   4. a beautiful or ideal person or thing.   5. a state of mind without proper perception of reality (goes about in a dream). --v (past and past part. dreamt or dreamed)   1. intr. experience a dream.   2. tr. imagine in or as if in a dream.   3. (usu. with neg.) a intr. (foll. by of) contemplate the possibility of, have any conception or intention of (would not dream of upsetting them). b tr. (often foll. by that + clause) think of as a possibility (never dreamt that he would come).   4. tr. (foll. by away) spend (time) unprofitably.   5. intr. be inactive or unpractical.   6. intr. fall into a reverie. Phrases and idioms dream-time Austral. the alcheringa. dream up imagine, invent. like a dream colloq. easily, effortlessly. Derivatives dreamful adj. dreamless adj. dreamlike adj. Etymology: ME f. OE dream joy, music |
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