英语词汇“dream”的音标、意思、用法及中文翻译-反思网

aim(INTENTION)

ambition

aspiration(HOPE)

goal(AIM)

hope

intentformal or specialized

intention

object(PURPOSE)

objective

target(AIM)

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something you want to do or achieve
aimOur aim in protesting is to raise awareness of the unfairness of the system.
goalMy goal in life has always been to be financially independent.
objectiveOne of my objectives for this year is to increase sales.
targetIf you meet your sales targets you will receive a generous bonus.
dreamWhen I was growing up my dream was to perform in front of millions of people.
hopeMy hope is that there will be some kind of positive outcome to this process.
a dream come true
something good that someone wanted very much to happen but seemed very unlikely, that does in fact happen:
Winning all that money was a dream come true.赢得了那些钱，终于美梦成真了。
of dreams
used to say that something is perfect or excellent:
With gorgeous colours and sumptuously soft velvet, this really is the sofa of dreams.
of your dreams
used to say that something is what someone has always wanted or the best that they can imagine:
Win the house of your dreams in our fantastic competition!参加我们超级棒的竞赛，赢得您梦想中的房子！
Their dream to bring computers and ordinary people together was nothing less than revolutionary.他们梦想着让计算机走进普通百姓的生活，这不亚于进行一场革命。
To win the Olympic gold medal was the realization of his life's dream.赢得奥运会金牌就实现了他平生的夙愿。
Ever since she was a child her dream has been to teach school.
It was his boyhood dream to become a film director.
After all the problems I'd had getting pregnant, Oliver's birth was a dream come true.经历了怀孕的所有问题后，奥利弗的出世圆了我的梦。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Hoping and hopefulness
appealingly
beyond someone's expectations
boosterish
boosterism
bright spot
fancy
hope springs eternalidiom
hopeful
hopefully
hopefulness
it's an ill wind (that blows nobody any good)idiom
over-optimism
over-optimistic
over-optimistically
pin your hopes on something/someoneidiom
pious
pipe dream
positively
wing
wishfully

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Wanting things

Idioms

be (living) in a dream world

beyond your wildest dreams

in a dream

in your dreams!

not/never in your wildest dreams

work/go like a dream

wouldn't dream of something/doing something
dream
adjective
uk /driːm/ us /driːm/
dream house, job, etc.
the perfect house, job, etc., that you want more than any other: 理想的房子／工作等
It had always been their intention to build their dream house.
dream
verb
uk /driːm/ us /driːm/dreamed or dreamt | dreamed or dreamt

dreamverb (SLEEP)

A2[ I or T ]
to experience events and images in your mind while you are sleeping: 做梦;梦见
dream aboutWhat did you dream about last night?昨晚你梦见什么了？
dream ofI often dream of flying.
[ + that ]I dreamed (that) I was having a baby.我梦见自己要生小孩了。
[ I or T ]mainly UK
to imagine that you have heard, done, or seen something when you have not: 梦想，想象
Did you say that you were going tonight or did I dream it?你说了今晚要去吗，还是只是我的想象？
I thought I'd bought some polish and it seems I haven't - I must have been dreaming.我以为自己买了一些上光剂而现在似乎并没有——这一定是我自己的想象。
She dreamed she saw someone standing at the foot of her bed.她梦见有人站在她的床脚处。
There's an old superstition that young girls going to bed on this night dream of their future husbands.有这么一种古老的迷信，认为年轻姑娘们这天晚上睡觉会梦到未来的丈夫。
Last night I dreamed that you were living in my kitchen - it was weird!
I couldn't believe what I was seeing - I thought I must be dreaming.
If you're dreaming that you're about to die, you always wake up, don't you?

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Dreaming
be hearing/imagining/seeing thingsidiom
be miles awayidiom
daydream
daydreamer
daydreaming
dreamfully
dreamless
dreamlessly
dreamscape
fantasist
imagination
in a dreamidiom
mile
night terror
nightmare
oneiric
redream
reverie
thing
Walter Mitty

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Imagining and conceiving

dreamverb (HOPE)

B1[ I ]
to imagine something that you would like to happen: 幻想;梦想，想望
dream ofI dream of living on a tropical island.我梦想着生活在热带岛屿上。
[ + that ]He never dreamed (that) one day he would become president.他做梦也没有想过有一天他会成为总统。
never dreamedWe never dreamed (that) this could happen.
dream oninformal
used to tell someone that what they are hoping for is not likely to happen or to be true: 痴心妄想，做梦去吧
"Watch. All I have to do is wink at her, and she'll come over here." "Dream on, Dave!"“你瞧着，我只要冲她眨眨眼，她就会过来。”“做梦去吧，戴夫。”

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Imagining and conceiving
assume
beyond your wildest dreamsidiom
blue-sky
cognitive map
conceivable
fancy
fertility
imagine
impute something to someone
in your mind's eyeidiom
inconceivably
lay the foundation(s) of/foridiom
look on/upon someone/something as something
regard
reimagine
retheorization
retheorize
revisualization
riot
throw

Phrasal verbs

dream about/of something

dream something up

dream | American Dictionary

dream
noun[ C ]
us/drim/

dreamnoun[C] (SLEEP)

the activities, images, and feelings experienced by the mind during sleep:
In the dream I had last night, someone was chasing me, but I didn’t know who it was.

dreamnoun[C] (HOPE)

an event or condition that you hope for very much, although it is not likely to happen:
It was his dream to be a dancer.
Dream is sometimes used before a noun when you want to say that something is almost perfect:
If there were one more bedroom, it would be my dream house.

Idiom

dream come true
dream
verb
us/drim/past tense and past participledreamedus/drimd, dremt/dreamtus/dremt/

dreamverb (SEE IMAGES)

to experience activities, images, and feelings in your mind during sleep:
[ I ]What did you dream about last night?
[ + that clause ]I dreamed that I was in a boat on a big lake, and I was trying to get back to land.

dreamverb (HOPE)

[ I ]
to desire something very much and hope that it happens:
Ever since that defeat, he had dreamed of revenge.

Idiom

someone would not dream of doing something

Phrasal verb

dream up something

Examples of dream

dream
We were able to visit places that we had never been able to see and never dreamed that we would see.
My memories are fresh and vivid as some of the more powerful dreams that come to me in the dark before morning.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
What are we to do with the visual denizens of luminous dreams?
He responds to this provocation with an exposition of the authority of dreams that is staggering by contrast.
Chauntecleer is only an interpreter - of the heavens, of dreams, of previous textual authority.
Utopian dreaming did not banish waking nightmares, but made those nightmares seem so routine and familiar as to impoverish dreaming.
Older priests had fewer transcendent experiences and less trust in dreams and imagination than younger priests.
In this quotation, dreams of flying provide a self-legitimating text and a plenitude of images.
By the 7th century, then, the three principal approaches to dreams had all been clearly formulated.
He argued that such a philosophical position could not cope with the phenomena of dreams and especially hypnosis.
His work on dreams and symbolism has proved valuable in clinical work.
His point is that astrology is less of a threat than is a nation, or statesmen, without dreams.
Not only "less guarded" words but "livelier shapes" enhance the fancy-work of refashioning individual patriots and collective dreams.
Rather, dreaming appears to be a consequence of various forms of cerebral activation during sleep.
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Collocations withdream

dream

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bad dream
He cast a dark shadow over the country's sense of well-being, a baddream that would not go away.
beyond the dreams of avarice
This country is really rich in its capacity beyond the dreams of avarice.
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childhood dream
Her childhood dream was to become a flight attendant, but at the age of 16, she was discovered on the street by a fashion editor.
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