梦（夢）mènɡⅠ ❶ （睡眠时脑中的表象活动） dream: 恶 ～ evil [hideous; terrible] dream; 白日 ～ day [waking] dream; 详 ～ read a dream
❷ （姓氏） a surname: ～ 仲才 Meng Zhongcai Ⅱ （做梦） dream: 我昨晚 ～ 见了老家。 I dreamed about [of] my old home last night.
◆梦笔生花 dream of being a successful writer; be good at writing beautiful poems [essays]; be imaginative; dream of flowers blooming at one's pentip; (Li Bo) dreamed that his pen “grew blossoms”； 梦话 words uttered in one's sleep; somniloquy; daydream; nonsense; 梦幻 illusion; dream; reverie; 梦幻泡影 pipe dream; a dreamy illusion and an empty bubble; an illusion which is vacant or easily vanishes; a total failure; be like a vanishing dream [bursting bubble]; 梦见 see in a dream; dream about; dream; 梦境 {心理} dreamland; dreamworld; manifest content; dream; 梦寐 dream; sleep; 梦寐以求 dream of ...; a long cherished goal; beg for it in sleep; crave (for) sth. so that one even dreams about it; hanker after ...; long [yearn] for sth. day and night; set one's mind all the time on ...; try one's utmost to achieve what one dreams of; try to find even in sleep; 梦乡 dreamland; slumberland; 梦想 dream of; vainly hope; pipe dream; woolgathering; fond dream; earnest wish; 梦魇 {医} nightmare; incubus; 梦呓 sleep-talking; somniloquy; somniloquence; somniloquism; rigmarole; 梦游（症） sleepwalking; night-walking; somnambulism 梦dream
别～依稀咒逝川，故园三十二年前。(毛泽东诗《到韶山》) Like a dim dream recalled,I curse the long-fled past.My native soil two and thirty years gone by.(Mao Zedong’s poem Shaoshan Revisited)/我昨夜～见了你。I dreamt about you last light./圆了一个好～fulfil a good dream/痴人说～ idiot’s daydream;idiot’s nonsense;tale told by an idiot/说～话talk in one’s sleep/做～ dream/白日～day dream/噩～bad deam;frightening dream; nightmare/黄粱～pipe dream/～中情人sweetheart in one’s dreams |