dream /ˈdrim/
 (vi.)夢,做夢,夢見,夢想,空想;醉生夢死地度過,虛度


 dream /ˈdrɪm/ 名詞
 夢


 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?”

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 Dream n.
 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, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dreamed or Dreamt (drĕmt); p. pr. & vb. n. Dreaming.]
 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.


 dream
      n 1: a series of mental images and emotions occurring during
           sleep; "I had a dream about you last night" [syn: dreaming]
      2: a cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own
         business" [syn: ambition, aspiration]
      3: imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake; "he lives in a
         dream that has nothing to do with reality" [syn: dreaming]
      4: a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the
         opium pipe); "I have this pipe dream about being emperor
         of the universe" [syn: pipe dream]
      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"
      v 1: have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy [syn: daydream, woolgather,
            stargaze]
      2: experience while sleeping; "She claims to never dream"; "He
         dreamt a strange scene"
      [also: dreamt]


 Dream
    God has frequently made use of dreams in communicating his will
    to men. The most remarkable instances of this are recorded in
    the history of Jacob (Gen. 28:12; 31:10), Laban (31:24), Joseph
    (37:9-11), Gideon (Judg. 7), and Solomon (1 Kings 3:5). Other
    significant dreams are also recorded, such as those of Abimelech
    (Gen. 20:3-7), Pharaoh's chief butler and baker (40:5), Pharaoh
    (41:1-8), the Midianites (Judg. 7:13), Nebuchadnezzar (Dan. 2:1;
    4:10, 18), the wise men from the east (Matt. 2:12), and Pilate's
    wife (27:19).

      To Joseph "the Lord appeared in a dream," and gave him
    instructions regarding the infant Jesus (Matt. 1:20; 2:12, 13,
    19). In a vision of the night a "man of Macedonia" stood before
    Paul and said, "Come over into Macedonia and help us" (Acts
    16:9; see also 18:9; 27:23).