dream up

英 [driːm ʌp]

美 [driːm ʌp]

凭空想象出; 虚构出

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 凭空想象出;虚构出
  If youdream upa plan or idea, you work it out or create it in your mind.
  1. I dreamed up a plan to solve both problems at once...
     我想出了一个方案，可以同时解决两个问题。
  2. The event was dreamed up by Mick Jagger...
     这事是米克·贾格尔的凭空捏造。
  3. His son hadn't dreamed it up.
     他儿子并没有虚构此事。

英英释义

verb

• devise or invent
  1. He thought up a plan to get rich quickly
  2. no-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software
  Synonym:think upthink ofhatchconcoct

双语例句

• Not to mention the other conspiracy theories that paranoid schizophrenics dream up.
  更别说其他那些神经病疑神疑鬼幻想出来的阴谋论。
• Instead, they dream up conspiracy theories.
  相反，他们会幻想阴谋论。
• Every single design element coming from Razer comes through my review and my full time job is pretty much to play games all day and dream up awesome kick ass cool stuff together with the Razer team.
  Razer产品的每一个设计元素的确定都需要经过我亲自审查，我的大多工作时间会花在的游戏中，并与Razer团队一起去创意出一些大家都觉得时尚又超级酷的东西。
• During class, I'd dream up excuses to turn around and look at her.
  上课时，我的梦想借口回过头来看看她。
• It wasn't long ago we listened to the whir of a dot-matrix printer spitting out documents from our computers, now a 3D printer renders any object we can dream up the same way.
  事实上，能让我们的电脑打印纸质文档的点矩阵打印机，还是不久之前才发明出来的，而现在3D打印机又以同样的方式，使我们梦想的各种物体都能呈现在我们眼前。
• Where did you dream up that fantastic rumor?
  你哪里想出如此怪诞的谣传？
• They must have a full-time staff to dream up all this gobbledygook.
  他们当时一定是有一个专门炮制这类官样文章的人员班底。
• Just what we can dream up on the streets.
  只有我们瞎想出来的街头舞步。
• Once the troublesome mind begins to compose speeches and dream up arguments, especially if these are clever, it will soon imagine it is doing important work.
  麻烦的脑袋一旦开始构思演说，编造巧思辩论，很快就会以为自己做的工作很重要。
• Don't dream up thousand of reasons why you can't do what you want to; find one reason why you can.
  不要空想出千百个理由来解释你为何不能做；你想做的事，找一个理由解释你为何要做吧。