daydream
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++day·dream1 /ˈdeɪdriːm/ ●○○ verb [intransitive] DREAMIMAGINEto think about something pleasant, especially when this makes you forget what you should be doing 做白日梦，幻想，梦想 → dreamdaydream about What are you daydreaming about? There’s work to be done. 你在做什么白日梦？活还没干完呢。► see thesaurus at imagine —daydreamer noun [countable]→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
daydream• As children, we learn that we shouldn't daydream.• At school, he was always being told to 'stop daydreaming'.• Blackthorne was sitting alone in a corner of the garden, daydreaming.• These seem amazing facts in a country which daydreams about exporting its democracy.• Many women daydream about having time to themselves.• Carol sat at her desk, daydreaming about meeting Mel Gibson.• Colin began to daydream about what he would do if he won the lottery.• Almost anyone who has ever read a good book has daydreamed about writing his or her own best-seller.• This is a wonderful place to daydream and dawdle.• Mark had begun to daydream, and didn't even hear the teacher's question.• Daniel was a quiet child who daydreamed in class.• Irene daydreamed incessantly of hilly streets, cable cars, Chinatown and Rice-o-Roni.• When Charles tapped me on the shoulder I was daydreaming of golden beaches and palm trees.• Those who have been daydreaming or carving their initials into the desktops sit up.• The old hands were less excited and settled down to daydream the time away until supper.• You crumple the paper and begin daydreaming to ease the frustration.daydream2 noun [countable] IMAGINEpleasant thoughts you have while you are awake that make you forget what you are doing 白日梦 → dreamExamples from the Corpus
daydream• When he came out, he thought, he would sit in the driver's seat and allow himself a daydream.• She was sitting at the back of the class, lost in a daydream.• Neil seemed lost in a daydream, and didn't hear what I said.• It was a deliciously decadent daydream which stirred the blood, sending adrenalin pumping through his system.• I began to have daydreams about us being married.• Ingrid was brought out of her daydream by a shout from her mother.• Jolted from his daydreams, Lucien had time only to feel a rush of air as Amber Epipheny swept past him.• These stories and my daydreams underlined what was happening in Lobethal and elsewhere.• Something moved in the water and snapped me out of my daydream.• There are also fantasies where there is no serious desire for fulfilment, as in the manner of daydreams.day·dream1 verbdaydream2 nounChineseSyllable
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daydream
day‧dream1 /ˈdeɪdriːm/ 
verb [intransitive]
to think about something pleasant, especially when this makes you forget what you should be doing ⇨ dream
daydream about
What are you daydreaming about? There’s work to be done.
—daydreamer noun [countable]
▪ imagine to form a picture or idea in your mind about what something might be like: When I think of Honolulu, I imagine long white beaches and palm trees. | I can’t really imagine being a millionaire.
▪visualize to form a picture of someone or something in your mind, especially something that is definitely going to happen or exist in the future: Anna visualized meeting Greg again at the airport. | The finished house may be hard to visualize.
▪picture to form a clear picture of something or someone in your mind: I can still picture my father, even though he died a long time ago. | The town was just how she had pictured it from his description.
▪envisage /ɪnˈvɪzɪdʒ/ especially British English, envision to imagine something as possible or likely to happen in the future: How do you envisage your career developing over the next ten years? | They had envisioned the creation of a single armed force, small but efficient.
▪conceive of something formal to imagine a situation, especially one that is difficult to imagine: For many people, music is so important that they cannot conceive of life without it.
▪fantasize to imagine something exciting that you would like to happen, but that is very unlikely to happen: I used to fantasize about becoming a film star.
▪daydream to imagine pleasant things, so that you forget where you are and what you should be doing: Mark began to daydream, and didn’t even hear the teacher’s question.
▪hallucinate to imagine that you are seeing things that are not really there, especially because you are ill or have taken drugs: The drug that can cause some people to hallucinate. | When I saw the walls moving, I thought I must be hallucinating.
daydream2 noun [countable]
pleasant thoughts you have while you are awake that make you forget what you are doing ⇨ dream
■ when you are sleeping
▪dream the thoughts, images, and feelings that go through your mind while you are asleep: I had a strange dream last night -- you and I were in some sort of forest.
▪nightmare a very unpleasant and frightening dream: She still has terrible nightmares about the accident.
▪daydream a series of pleasant thoughts that go through your mind when you are awake, so that you do not notice what is happening around you: Neil was in a daydream, and didn’t hear the teacher call his name.
▪reverie formal a state of imagining or thinking about pleasant things, that is like dreaming: The doorbell rang, shaking her from her reverie.
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verb [intransitive]to think about something pleasant, especially when this makes you forget what you should be doing ⇨ dream
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noun [countable]pleasant thoughts you have while you are awake that make you forget what you are doing ⇨ dream
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