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
- Alternative fuel for vehicles, once a pipe dream, has become a reality.
汽车代用燃料，曾经是一个可望不可及的梦，可现在却日行日近。 - Moving abroad? It's just a pipe dream at the moment.
移居国外？目前看来是白日梦。 - For me, it is just a pipe dream to travel to The Moon.
对我而言，去月球旅行只是白日梦。 - 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。 - You know, I told her it was a pipe dream.
你知道，我告诉她这不切实际。 - 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。 - 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。 - I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe.
一些现代派绘画具有梦幻色彩。 - 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。 - 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。