build castles in the air

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To have any desire, idea, or plan that is unlikely to be realized; to imagine visionary projects or schemes; to have an idle fancy or a pipe dream; to daydream. idiomatic,transitive
    — Look you, Amanda, you may build castles in the air, "and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please." But I tell you, no man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or will be so.

词形变化

builds castles in the air present,singular,third-person building castles in the air participle,present built castles in the air participle,past built castles in the air past builded castles in the air archaic,participle,past,poetic builded castles in the air archaic,past,poetic build air castles alternative

词源

The first term dates from the late 1500s. A variant, castles in Spain (or châteaux en Espagne), was recorded in the Roman de la Rose in the 13th century and translated into English around 1365.
3 次浏览 数据来源: Wiktionary