| 释义 |
dream team, n. orig. U.S.
Brit. |ˈdriːm tiːm|, U.S. |ˈdrim ˌtim|
[‹ dream n.2 + team n., as a rhyming pair.]
1. Sport (orig. U.S.). A (potentially) highly successful team; a team of excellent players, (originally) esp. an all-star team comprised of the best available players in a particular league, division, etc.
Popularized internationally as the name given to the U.S. basketball team which won the gold medal at the 1992 Olympics.
1925D. Runyon in Bridgeport (Connecticut) Telegram 26 Dec. 12/1 They are all-star teams, these ‘dream teams’—the kind of teams that football bugs fondly imagine, and that the football experts set down on paper as their idea of the absolute ultimate in football prowess, but never hope to see. 1935N.Y. Times 7 July s4/1, 85,000 will watch All-Star classic... The home folks will give the rival ‘dream teams’ a thunderous welcome. 1955N.Y. Times 7 Feb. 26/3 He was taking the two best men from each of the Big Three... He is willing to leave the National Hockey League to pilot this dream team. 1977Washington Post 7 Jan. d3/1 Shelton, picked to several ‘dream teams’ as one of the nation's top five schoolboys, could lift only five pounds with his leg when the cast came off..after that all-star game injury. 1992Independent 13 Aug. 18/7 Guy Hodgson took issue with the American Olympic basketball ‘dream team’... True, the American team romped home in great style, but at the same time they showed the rest of the world the gap they have to close. 2000Sunday Mirror (Nexis) 15 Oct. 4, Fans north and south of the border have been asked to pick their All-Ireland soccer dream team from anyone who has played during the last five decades.
2. A team of people considered the best in their field or perceived as an ideal combination for a particular purpose; a group regarded as highly suitable or very well-matched. Also of things: a wish list. Cf. dream ticket n. at dream n.2 Compounds 7.
1972J. McGinniss Dream Team 26 Do you know what Federated Press is starting?.. A collection of the smartest, prettiest girl reporters. They're bringing them all to New York and calling them the dream team. 1990Daily Tel. Mirror (Sydney) 2 Nov. 37/5 When Channel 10's new boss Gary Rice sacked her and the rest of the dream team Cosser had poached from Channel 9, he explained they were on salaries the network could no longer afford. 1995Wire Jan. 64/3 Adrian Sherwood hired this dream team to lay down the foundations for his own early experiments in the echo chamber. 2001Bergen County (New Jersey) Record (Electronic ed.) 3 Feb. Dressler, proudly accepting his party's nomination, said his running mates are ‘the Bergen County Dream Team of Democratic politics’. |