dream
[dri:m]
n. 梦, 想, 愿望

vt. 做梦, 想象, 梦想

vi. 做梦, 想象, 梦想

[医] 梦

1. He thinks she is in love with him, but it's only a dream.
   她，但梦想而已。
2. Their new house is a real dream.
   新房真像梦般美。
3. I never dreamed that I should see you again.
   想再次见。

dream
dreamt
[ noun ]

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

<noun.cognition>
I had a dream about you last night

2. imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake

<noun.cognition>
he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality

3. a cherished desire

<noun.feeling>
his ambition is to own his own business

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

<noun.cognition>
I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe

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

<noun.cognition>
he went about his work as if in a dream

6. someone or something wonderful

<noun.state>
this dessert is a dream

[ verb ]

1. have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy

<verb.creation> daydream stargaze woolgather

2. experience while sleeping

<verb.perception>
She claims to never dream
He dreamt a strange scene

Dream \Dream\ (dr[=e]m), n. [Akin to OS. dr[=o]m, D. droom, G.
traum, Icel. draumr, Dan. & Sw. dr["o]m; cf. G. tr["u]gen to
deceive, Skr. druh to harm, hurt, try to hurt. AS. dre['a]m
joy, gladness, and OS. dr[=o]m joy are, perh., different
words; cf. Gr. qry^los noise.]
1. The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary
transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a
sleeping vision.

Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes.
--Dryden.

I had a dream which was not all a dream. --Byron.

2. A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy; a
vagary; a revery; -- in this sense, applied to an
imaginary or anticipated state of happiness; as, a dream
of bliss; the dream of his youth.

There sober thought pursued the amusing theme,
Till Fancy colored it and formed a dream. --Pope.

It is not them a mere dream, but a very real aim
which they propose. --J. C.
Shairp.


Dream \Dream\, v. t.
To have a dream of; to see, or have a vision of, in sleep, or
in idle fancy; -- often followed by an objective clause.

Your old men shall dream dreams. --Acts ii. 17.

At length in sleep their bodies they compose,
And dreamt the future fight. --Dryden.

And still they dream that they shall still succeed.
--Cowper.

{To dream away} {To dream out}, {To dream through}, etc., to
pass in revery or inaction; to spend in idle vagaries; as,
to dream away an hour; to dream through life. `` Why does
Antony dream out his hours?'' --Dryden.


Dream \Dream\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Dreamed} (dr[=e]md) or
{Dreamt} (dr[e^]mt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Dreaming}.] [Cf. AS.
dr[=e]man, dr[=y]man, to rejoice. See {Dream}, n.]
1. To have ideas or images in the mind while in the state of
sleep; to experience sleeping visions; -- often with of;
as, to dream of a battle, or of an absent friend.

2. To let the mind run on in idle revery or vagary; to
anticipate vaguely as a coming and happy reality; to have
a visionary notion or idea; to imagine.

Here may we sit and dream
Over the heavenly theme. --Keble.

They dream on in a constant course of reading, but
not digesting. --Locke.