| 释义 |
dreamer|ˈdriːmə(r)|
[f. dream v.2 + -er1.]
1. One who dreams; one who has visions in sleep; a visionary; an idle speculator.
a1300Cursor M. 4111 (Cott.) Lo quar þe dremer now es cummen. c1440Promp. Parv. 131/2 Dremare, sompniator. 1533Coverdale Lord's Supper Wks. (Parker Soc.) I. 437 Unless we will be very dreamers and blockheads. 1601Shakes. Jul. C. i. ii. 24 He is a Dreamer, let vs leaue him. 1727De Foe Syst. Magic i. iv. (1840) 117 We have indeed some of Balaam's dreamers. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 691 He was not..the first great discoverer whom princes and statesmen had regarded as a dreamer.
2. A name given to some species of Chelidoptera or puff-bird. |