梦想家：dream的用法和辨析

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        It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
        ——Robert Goddard
        很难说什么是不可能，因为昨天的梦境是今天的希望和明天的事实。
        ——罗伯特·戈达德
        一、关于dream，你应该知道的用法有
        n.
        1.梦 [C] a series of images, events and feelings that happen in your mind while you are asleep
        He assimilates life to a dream.
        他把人生比作梦。
         
        2.梦想，愿望 [C] a wish to have or be sth, especially six that seems difficult to achieve
        I have accomplished my dream.
        我实现了我的梦想。
         
        v.
        1.做梦，梦见 [I,T]to experience a series of images, events and feelings in your mind while you are asleep
        She dreamed about her baby.
        她梦见了她的宝宝。
         
        2.梦想，向往 [I,T] to imagine sth that you would like to happen
        Do you ever dream of hunting for treasures left in ships sunk hundreds of years ago?
        你梦想到百年沉船里寻宝吗？
         
        3.想到 [I,T] think about sth that you would like to happen
        You never dream that you are making me frightfully unhappy.
        你从未想到过你正在使我非常不愉快。
         
        二、含有dream的常见短语
        dream up
        v.空想出,构思,创造,设计(发明物等)
         
        pipe dream
        想入非非的计划,幻想,白日梦
         
        三、做个填词游戏吧
       
        This Utopian ______ is far beyond the range of possibility.
        这种乌托邦式的梦想根本不可能实现。