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

• If you dream up a new specialism& ethical hacker, pet psychologist, nutrition coach?
  如果你想出了一种新职业&有道德的黑客、宠物心理师或营养教练？
• 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。
• He could dream up the most fantastic rumors.
  他能想出最怪诞的谣传。
• Just what we can dream up on the streets.
  只有我们瞎想出来的街头舞步。
• NASA failed to dream up a cover for extensive and brightly colored red dust!
  NASA忘记设计对广泛的色彩鲜明的红尘的掩盖了！
• 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？
• 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。
• You could dream up any scenario.
  你可以幻想任何故事情节。
• 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。
• His mission was to improve economics within government, using evidence to set policy, rather than using economists to dream up justifications for the policies already decided.
  他的任务是改善政府内部的经济状况，利用事实证据来制定政策，而非让经济学家们凭空想象既定政策的合理性。