| 单词 | air castle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasair castle air castle n. a ‘castle in the air’, a visionary or baseless project. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > daydream or reverie > [noun] castle in Spainc1400 reverie1477 brown studyc1555 castle in the skies1576 castle in the air1579 comedown1583 memento1587 towers in the air1599 daydream1651 dream1732 air castle1786 châteaux in air1793 chateau(x) en Espagne1834 cloud-castle1887 pipe dream1890 fantasy1926 1786 A. M. Bennett Juvenile Indiscretions III. 157 He..accompanied him back to Orange Street, to the entire destruction of all Janet's air castles. 1795 T. Wilkinson Wandering Patentee I. 22 By attempting a visionary comparison, which has just now struck my air-castle imagination. 1833 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. viii, in Fraser's Mag. Dec. 675/2 High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words. 1887 H. H. Jackson Between Whiles i. 18 It was a sad come-down from his old air-castles for her and for himself. 1919 J. Thurber Let. 24 Sept. (2002) 34 Air castles must be torn down, those mushrooms of a minute's dream, and a slow and labored foundation begun on the old site. 1996 City Paper (Baltimore) 4 Dec. 25/1 The utopian purple air castles he conjured in his music. < as lemmas |
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