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pipe-dream


n hope or plan that is impossible or unworkable 不切实际的希望; 行不通的计画.
1. But studying my textbooks late at night in the library of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), I would dream, not of India, but of America, the land of opportunity.
    但是, 当我深夜在印度技术学院的图书馆里啃着书本的时候,我脑子经常想的不是印度,而是美国这个机会之国。

2. Fulfilling its designer´s dream to create ´an enormous object drawn as faintly as possible´.
    实现了设计者企图创造一个"尽量用细线条勾画出一个庞然大物"的梦想。

3. With her work taking off in so many directions, it was perhaps inevitable that Engelbreit would eventually realize her dream of illustrating a children's book.
    由于恩格尔布赖特的工作在多方面获得成功,她最终实现为一本儿童书绘制插图的梦想也就自然而然了。

4. The emptiness of his dream made him fretful.
    梦想的落空使他十分苦恼。

5. The pipe burst and jets of water shot across the kitchen.
    管子破了, 水从厨房的这边喷到那边.

6. The room soon filled with the water spurting from the broken pipe .
    水管破裂后房间内顿时充满了水。

7. This pressure must be under control, and we control it by means of the mud which we circulate down the drill pipe.
    这种压力必须加以控制,我们让泥桨顺着钻杆向下循环,用这种方法来控制压力。

8. The dream he had had for so many years ended there.
    他多年来的幻想从此破灭。

9. This dream filled him with intense religious enthusiasm.
    这场梦使他对宗教充满了强烈的热情。

10. Telecommunications is also a key to Shanghai's dream of becoming a top financial center.
    通信工程也是上海实现其成为一流金融中心这一梦想的关键。

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