| 单词 | dream factory |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdream factory dream factory n. (a) a notional factory where dreams are made; (b) a manufacturer of fabricated or idealized concepts or situations, esp. a film studio or television production company; the film industry, spec. Hollywood. ΚΠ 1894 Harper's Young People 23 Oct. 866/1 We live on happiness,..doing..very nice things for other people. Why, the years I had charge of our dream factory I got rich enough to keep me in happiness all my days. 1935 J. Rorty in Forum & Cent. Sept. 162/1 Hollywood is organized and capitalized evasion of reality... It is a vast, departmentalized, delicately coordinated dream factory. 1936 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 42 428 Los Angeles and Hollywood, with its ‘dream factories’. 1965 A. Ryvers tr. P. Ravignant Edge on Darkness ii. 66 There were some whose industry was dream: they spun..dreams as others wool. They had dream factories and dream merchants dealing in dreams. 1999 N.Y. Times 11 Feb. b1/2 Mr. Spelling, the elfin mogul in charge of television's most productive dream factory, knows a thing or two about fantasy dwellings. 2001 Chicago Tribune 2 Nov. ii. 4/4 The seedy side of Los Angeles' dream factories and palm-lined streets. < as lemmas |
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