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

• This was not hard to dream up; the crown on this style of Buddha is naturally the correct shape for pulp extraction and juicer.
  这不难想像，这类佛祖外型的头部就跟果肉萃取机和果汁机的形状一样。
• 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。
• Where did you dream up that fantastic rumor?
  你哪里想出如此怪诞的谣传？
• 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。
• 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。
• Don't dream up such an excuse.
  别找这种借口了。
• 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 can always dream up some new excuse for the train arriving late.
  他们总能够臆造出火车误点的藉口。
• 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。
• 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。