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A reverie is a pleasant kind of . Your body is still in the room, but your mind has drifted off into pictures and thoughts you like — a holiday, a song, a life you wish you had. People fall into a reverie or get lost in reverie. It is a rather pretty, word; friends would usually just say they were . Though actually, a reverie is not always happy. The French word it comes from simply means dreaming, so the mood can also be far-away or a little sad. It is not a plan, and it is not sleep: you are awake, just not quite here.
幻想、白日夢(較文雅的說法)
組成Borrowed from French rêverie, a word for dreaming or daydreaming. It is not built from revere, even though the spelling looks close.
原始詞典資料4 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。
reverienoun詞源 1/ˈɹɛvəɹi/
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A state of dreaming while awake; a loose or irregular train of thought; musing or meditation; daydream.
- If you rouse from your reverie, you are restless and agitated; your eye wanders round in one perpetual search; and if, perchance, as has happened once or twice, he has only passed in the distance, your eye brightens, your cheek flushes crimson, and your whole frame quivers with uncontrollable emotion!
- we sat / But spoke not, rapt in nameless reverie, […]
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An extravagant conceit of the imagination; a vision.
- If the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool; There are infinite reveries , numberless extravagancies , and a perpetual train of vanities , which pass through both .
reverieverb詞源 1/ˈɹɛvəɹi/
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To daydream.
- By this time the mouth begins to feel uneasy—I pick another cheroot from Cotton’s last box, and walk up and down reverie-ing as before.
- So now the dream of all my life is realized, and I have seen snow mountains! When I was quite a little child of eight years old I used to reverie about them, and when I heard the name of the snow-covered Sierra de la Summa Paz (perfect peace) the idea was completed; and I thenceforth always thought of eternal snow and perfect peace together, and longed to see the one and drink in the other.
reverienoun詞源 2/ˈɹɛvəɹi/
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archaicA caper, a frolic; merriment.
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。