reverie

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 rĕʹvə-rē

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A state of dreaming while awake; a loose or irregular train of thought; musing or meditation; daydream. countable,uncountable
    — If you rouse from your reverie, you are restless and agitated; your eye wanders round in one perpetual search; and if, perchance, as has happened once or twice, he has only passed in the distance, your eye brightens, your cheek flushes crimson, and your whole frame quivers with uncontrollable emotion!
  2. A caper, a frolic; merriment. archaic
  3. An extravagant conceit of the imagination; a vision. countable,uncountable
    — If the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool; There are infinite reveries , numberless extravagancies , and a perpetual train of vanities , which pass through both .
动词 v.
  1. To daydream. intransitive
    — By this time the mouth begins to feel uneasy—I pick another cheroot from Cotton’s last box, and walk up and down reverie-ing as before.

词形变化

reveries plural rêverie alternative revery alternative reveries present,singular,third-person reverying participle,present reveried participle,past reveried past reveries plural

词汇关系

衍生词
reverist reverize

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
French rêveriebor.
English reverie
Borrowed from French rêverie.
词源 2
From Middle French reverie (“revelry, drunkenness”), from Old French resverie, from resver (“to dream, to rave”), of uncertain origin. Compare rave.
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