| 单词 | fever dream |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfever dream fever dream n. [probably after German Fiebertraum (late 18th cent.)] a usually frightening or unsettling dream caused by a fever; (in extended use) a heightened and often disconcerting vision, idea, etc. ΚΠ 1801 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1956) II. 737 Even the Forms which struck terror into me in my fever-dreams were still forms of Beauty. 1877 F. E. M. Notley Love's Young Dream III. 172 The mad schemes that crowded into my mind, all mingled with a frenzy of hope and fear, rest still like a fever dream in my memory. 1951 German Q. 24 48 The child is suddenly seized by a violent illness. In a fever dream Pierre sees the flower garden. 1980 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 22 Mar. Apocalypse Now, his $31.5-million fever dream of the Vietnam war. 2013 B. Stone Everything Store iii. 81 Some of his ideas were so outlandish that employees called them ‘fever dreams’. < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。