时间:2019-01-17 作者:英语课 分类:英语口语


英语课

   白日梦 Pipe dream


  知不知道“烟斗”怎么说?很简单,仅用一个pipe就可形容这种“一头带有小吹嘴的管状抽烟用具”。当然,谈起pipe(烟斗),免不了会想到19世纪提着烟袋吸食鸦片的烟鬼们。短语pipedream(白日梦)还真得从烟鬼们腾云驾雾的“感觉”谈起。
  在18、19世纪的英国,上流社会吸食鸦片并不罕见。据说,英国湖畔诗人Samuel Taylor Coleridge(塞谬尔·柯勒律治)就是在鸦片的作用下,创作出了流传后世的诗作Kubla Kahn(《忽必烈汗》),只可惜诗中的元大都与实际都城相差十万八千里远。
  在当时,pipe(烟斗)常被引申为“鸦片”,如短语on the pipe 就很形象地形容了以“鸦片”为生的瘾君子,而pipe dream则用来比喻鸦片上瘾者陷入幻觉时的状态。大约在1895年左右,pipe dream正式进入英语词汇,不过在书面语中,pipe dream不再与鸦片有任何瓜葛,而是用来形容“白日梦,幻想,空想”。
  看下面一个例句:
  Her plans for a movie career had all been a pipe dream.
  她计划进入影视圈只是痴心妄想。

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