英汉词典

dream 基本解释

• vi. 梦想；做梦，梦见；想到
• n. 梦想，愿望；梦
• vt. 梦想；做梦；想到
• adj. 梦的；理想的；不切实际的

dream 词态变化

dream 中文词源

来自德语。

dream 英文词源

dream

dream: [13] Old English had a word drēam, which meant ‘joy, merrymaking, music’, but it is not at all clear that this is the same word as modern English dream (the recorded Old English words for ‘dream’ were swefn and mǣting). Semantically, the two are quite a long way apart, and on balance it seems more likely that Old English had a homonym *drēam ‘dream’, which has not survived in the written records, and which was perhaps subsequently reinforced by Old Norse draumr.

Both these and the related German traum and Dutch droom have been traced back to an Indo-European base denoting ‘deception’, represented also in Sanskrit druh- ‘seek to harm’ and Avestan (a dialect of Old Iranian) druz- ‘lie, deceive’.

dream (n.)

mid-13c. in the sense "sequence of sensations passing through a sleeping person's mind" (also as a verb), probably related to Old Norse draumr, Danish drøm, Swedish dröm, Old Saxon drom "merriment, noise," Old Frisian dram "dream," Dutch droom, Old High German troum, German traum "dream," perhaps from Proto-Germanic *draugmas "deception, illusion, phantasm" (cognates: Old Saxon bidriogan, Old High German triogan, German trügen "to deceive, delude," Old Norse draugr "ghost, apparition"). Possible cognates outside Germanic are Sanskrit druh- "seek to harm, injure," Avestan druz- "lie, deceive."

But Old English dream meant only "joy, mirth, noisy merriment," also "music." And much study has failed to prove that Old English dream is the root of the modern word for "sleeping vision," despite being identical in spelling. Either the meaning of the word changed dramatically or "vision" was an unrecorded secondary Old English meaning of dream, or there are two separate words here. OED offers this theory: "It seems as if the presence of dream 'joy, mirth, music,' had caused dream 'dream' to be avoided, at least in literature, and swefn, lit. 'sleep,' to be substituted ...."

Words for "sleeping vision" in Old English were mæting and swefn. Old English swefn originally meant "sleep," as did a great many Indo-European "dream" nouns, such as Lithuanian sapnas, Old Church Slavonic sunu, and the Romanic words (French songe, Spanish sueño, Italian sogno all from Latin somnium (from PIE *swep-no-; cognate with Greek hypnos; see somnolence; Old English swefn is from the same root). Dream in the sense of "ideal or aspiration" is from 1931, from earlier sense of "something of dream-like beauty or charm" (1888).

dream (v.)

c. 1200 in the current sense, from dream (n.). Old English verb dremen meant "rejoice; play music." Related: Dreamed; dreaming.

dream 词组搭配

dream 英文释义

1. a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep;

"I had a dream about you last night"

2. a cherished desire;

"his ambition is to own his own business"

3. imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake;

"he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality"

4. a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe);

"I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe"

5. a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality;

"he went about his work as if in a dream"

6. someone of something wonderful;

"this dessert is a dream"

dream 双语例句

1. When the right woman comes along, this bad dream will be over.

当有合适的女人出现时，这种胡思乱想就会停止了。

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2. In a dream you can be transported back in time.

在梦里你可以回到过去。

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3. It's as if I'm living in a hazy dream world.

我好像生活在缥缈的梦境里。

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4. You could waste your whole life on a pipe-dream.

白日梦会荒废你一生。

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5. Her dream is to present a lifestyle show on television.

她的梦想是主持一档电视时尚生活节目。

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dream 实用场景例句

I had a vivid dream about my old school.

我做了一个非常逼真的梦，梦见了我的母校。

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I thought someone came into the bedroom, but it was just a dream.

我还以为有人进了卧室，结果只是一场梦。

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‘Goodnight. Sweet dreams. ’

“晚安。祝你做个好梦。”

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Her lifelong dream was to be a famous writer.

她的毕生愿望就是成为名作家。

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He wanted to be rich but it was an impossible dream.

他想发财，然而这只是不可能实现的梦想。

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If I win, it will be a dream come true .

如果我赢了，那就是梦想成真。

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She cooked like a dream...

她烹饪技艺精湛。

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His ship had sailed like a dream.

他的船行驶十分顺畅。

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This could be the man of my dreams.

这就是我理想中的男子。

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Never in my wildest dreams did I think we could win.

我做梦也没想到我们会赢。

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She had already achieved success beyond her wildest dreams.

她已经取得超乎想象的成功。

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All day long I moved in a dream.

整整一天我都心不在焉。

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I never dreamed that I would be able to afford a home here...

我从没想到我在这儿能买得起房子。

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Who could ever dream of a disaster like this?...

谁能想到会发生这样的灾难？

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'Perhaps one day I may go on a relaxing holiday.' — 'Yeah, dream on.'

“也许有一天我可以享受一个放松身心的假期。”——“是啊,你就做梦吧。”

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He's every girl's dream!

他是所有姑娘的梦中情人！

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When the right woman comes along, this bad dream will be over.

当有合适的女人出现时,这种胡思乱想就会停止了。

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I wouldn't dream of making fun of you...

我绝不会取笑你。

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My sons would never dream of expecting their clothes to be ironed.

我的几个儿子从不指望别人帮他们熨好衣服。

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...a dream holiday to Jamaica.

牙买加梦幻之旅

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Greece is said to be a botanist's dream...

据说希腊是植物学家梦寐以求的地方。

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He had a dream about Claire...

他梦见了克莱尔。

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I had a dream that I was in an old study, surrounded by leather books.

我梦见我在一间古老的书房里,四周全是皮装书。

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Ivor dreamed that he was on a bus...

艾弗梦见他在一辆公共汽车上。

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She dreamed about her baby.

她梦见了她的宝宝。

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He had finally accomplished his dream of becoming a pilot...

他最终实现了成为一名飞行员的梦想。

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My dream is to have a house in the country...

我梦想在乡间拥有一栋房子。

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As a schoolgirl, she had dreamed of becoming an actress...

她上学时曾梦想成为一名女演员。

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For most of us, a brand new designer kitchen is something we can only dream about...

对我们大多数人来说,一间崭新的由著名设计师设计的厨房只能是一种梦想。

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He had his dream house built on the banks of the river Bure.

他在布尔河畔建造了他的梦幻屋。

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