听声词典

pipe dream

P 开头单词

音标发音

  • 英式音标 [ˈpaɪp ˌdriːm]
  • 美式音标 [ˈpaɪp ˌdriːm]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • 白日梦，空想

同根派生

     

英汉例句

    双语例句

  • “They” said what I tried to attain was a pipe-dream and nothing more.
    他们说我所尝试着去获得的仅仅是黄梁一梦。
  • The demise of the driving instructor may still be decades away, but the project is no mere pipe-dream.
    或许令驾驶教练绝迹尚需几十年，但是该项目绝非仅是黄梁美梦。
  • Some even point to the bankruptcy of Solyndra, a Californian maker of solar panels which had received lots of federal money, as proof that renewable energy is a wasteful pinko pipe-dream.
    此家公司得到大笔联邦贷款却以破产谢幕。 在他们眼里，这足以证明可再生能源只会浪费金钱，是鸽派政客的春秋大梦。

    • 权威例句

  • With each hour that passes in 2013, this becomes more and more of a pipe-dream.
    FORBES: Division In Washington Strikes Again
  • At the moment, to be trusted more than Labour on health and education is a pipe-dream.
    ECONOMIST: Why the Tories are defending the welfare state
  • This is a pipe-dream, if only because NATO's membership includes such non-EU countries as Canada, Norway and Turkey.
    ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

词组短语

    短语

  • pipe -dream 烟斗梦
  • shitty pipe dream 臭烘烘的白日梦
  • Pipe Dream Villas Resort 派普梦想别墅渡假村
  • be a pipe dream 白日梦
  • pipe dream fantasy 白日梦

英英字典

    剑桥英英字典

  • an idea or plan that is impossible or very unlikely to happen

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • A pipe dream is a hope or plan that you know will never really happen.

专业释义

    经济学

  • 白日梦