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

• Your love-struck friend will wonder if you feel the same way, and will probably dream up subtle tests to find out.
  迷上你的那位朋友不知道你和他（她）的想法是否一样，因此就想出一些绝妙的测试来验证。
• 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。
• There are day dreamers and night dreamers who dream up make believe places.
  白天做梦和晚上做梦的人，他们运用梦赐给他们的众多想象力，构造出/梦见虚假的地方。
• Perhaps, but a company with annual revenues of £ 2bn should have a little more visibility about where things are going right and wrong, and should know better than to leave the market to dream up worst-case scenarios.
  或许如此，但一家年收入20亿英镑的公司应该更加透明，让市场了解它在哪里进展顺利，又在哪里出了问题，而不是任由市场去想象最糟糕的情境。
• 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。
• Where did you dream up that fantastic rumor?
  你哪里想出如此怪诞的谣传？
• How can you dream up a crazy scheme like this?
  你怎么能想出这样一个奇怪的计划呢？
• 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。
• 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。
• Don't dream up such an excuse.
  别找这种借口了。