| 单词 | pipe dream |
| 释义 | pipe dreampipe dream PROBABLYa hope, idea, plan etc that is impossible or will probably never happen 白日梦，幻想，空想 In many parts of the country, democratic elections are simply a pipe dream. 在那个国家的很多地区，民主选举只是一个幻想。 Examples from the Corpus pipe dream• The November 1992 unveiling quickly became a pipe dream, and the museum now plans to finish the new wing incrementally.• Making it all the way to the NFL is a pipe dream for most athletes.• How are you going to ensure that Care in the Community is not just a pipe dream?• Yet collective, national education re-form seems mostly a pipe dream.• For now, it is only a pipe dream.• Of course, it's a pipe dream.• What a pipe dream, we thought, as many children were getting no education at all.• It was ready because the artfully crafted pipe dream of the land traffickers was beginning to sour.• This is not some pipe dream. → pipe dream at pipe1(1) |
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