核心畫面
Picture lying asleep at night while pictures, voices and feelings drift across your mind on their own — scenes you did not choose and cannot control. That night-time movie behind closed eyes is the root image; from it grow the daytime wish you keep replaying like a private film, the drifting attention that pulls you out of the room, and the feeling that something is too good to be real.
可以想成：晚上閉著眼睡著時，腦中自己浮現出來的畫面、聲音、感覺——那些你沒選、也控制不了的場景，像一場在眼皮後面播放…更多收起
可以想成：晚上閉著眼睡著時，腦中自己浮現出來的畫面、聲音、感覺——那些你沒選、也控制不了的場景，像一場在眼皮後面播放的電影。這個「睡夢中自動浮現的影像」就是 dream 的根。其他意思都從這裡長出來：白天反覆在腦中重播的那個渴望（夢想）、讓你飄離當下的恍神，還有「美得不像真的」這種感覺，全都帶著夢那種半真半假、自己浮現的味道。原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
dreamnoun/ˈdɹiːm/
- 1
Imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping.
- Last night I had a vividly scary dream about an immortal snail that chased me around and could kill me if it touched me.
- Crazy things like that only happen in dreams.
- 2
A hope or wish.
- This year I fulfilled a lifelong dream of visiting the South Pacific.
- So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
- 3
A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy.
- live in a dream
- wake up from a dream
dreamverb/ˈdɹiːm/
- 1
To see imaginary events in one's mind while sleeping.
- Although people primarily dream during the REM phase of sleeping, they can dream during non-REM sleep as well.
- Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky / I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry, / "Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup / Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry."
- 2
To hope, to wish.
- Lucy dreams of becoming a scientist when she grows up.
- 3
To daydream.
- Stop dreaming and get back to work.
- 4
To envision as an imaginary experience (usually when asleep).
- I dreamed a vivid dream last night.
- And still they dream that they shall still succeed.
- 5
To consider the possibility (of).
- I wouldn't dream of snubbing you in public.
- There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
dreamadj/ˈdɹiːm/
- 1
Ideal; perfect.
- Gonna drive back down where you once belonged / In the back of a dream car, twenty foot long
- If a girl who talked like that was not his dream girl, he didn't know a dream girl when he heard one.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。