pipe dream
英 [ˈpaɪp driːm]
美 [ˈpaɪp driːm]
n. 脱离实际的愿望; 行不通的计划; 妄想
牛津词典
noun
- 脱离实际的愿望；行不通的计划；妄想
a hope or plan that is impossible to achieve or not practical
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 白日梦；不切实际的空想
Apipe dreamis a hope or plan that you have which you know will never really happen.- You could waste your whole life on a pipe-dream.
白日梦会荒废你一生。
- You could waste your whole life on a pipe-dream.
英英释义
noun
- a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe)
- I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe
双语例句
- The idea that they could be freed from the clutches of national governments was a pipe dream.
有人认为它们能摆脱民族国家政府的控制，这种想法就是白日做梦。 - On the face of it, the idea of a pan-Asean exchange looks like a pipe dream.
乍看起来，泛东盟交易所似乎是个白日梦。 - You had to put it all on the line for some Vegas pipe dream.
你为了圆拉斯维加斯的梦，把什么都压上了。 - Father's plan to build a forest cabin by the lake was just a pipe dream.
父亲想在湖滨筑一林中小屋的计划不过是个美梦罢了。 - Just a decade ago, music streaming services like spotify and Pandora seemed like a pipe dream: vast libraries of legal music that could be accessed with just a computer or phone.
仅仅十年前，Spotify和Pandora这样的流媒体音乐服务看起来还像是白日梦，没人能想到有朝一日，我们仅仅通过一台电脑或一部手机就能获得大量的合法音乐。 - Eg. it feels really cool, but the idea of actually reading it is kind of a pipe dream.
它给人的感觉非常的酷，能够读懂布莱叶盲文是一个让人尖叫的梦想。 - Otherwise, the drive for the four modernizations will become a pipe dream.
否则，搞四个现代化就会变成一句空话。 - To not show emotion, you're an idiot, or you're living a pipe dream.
你要么是一个白痴，要么你就是生活在幻觉里，你才会不显露自己的感情。 - It's a nice little pipe dream.
这是个美好的小幻想。 - It's only a pipe dream, but I wish I could meet him.
那不过是个空想，但我真希望能见到他。