dream是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /v. 梦， 梦想， 幻想，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror.
-- But in pursuit of those far mysteries we dream of, or in tormented chase of that demon phantom that, some time or other, swims before all human hearts; while chasing such over this round globe, they either lead us on in barren mazes or midway leave us whelmed.
-- Look not too long in the face of the fire, O man!Never dream with thy hand on the helm!Turn not thy back to the compass; accept the first hint of the hitching tiller; believe not the artificial fire, when its redness makes all things look ghastly.
-- Hadst thou taken this old blacksmith to thyself ere his full ruin came upon him, then had the young widow had a delicious grief, and her orphans a truly venerable, legendary sire to dream of in their after years; and all of them a care-killing competency.
-- Such were the sounds that now came hurtling from out the old man's tormented sleep, as if Starbuck's voice had caused the long dumb dream to speak.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I know the doctor must be right, Oliver, because I dream so much of Heaven, and Angels, and kind faces that I never see when I am awake.
-- There is a drowsy state, between sleeping and waking, when you dream more in five minutes with your eyes half open, and yourself half conscious of everything that is passing around you, than you would in five nights with your eyes fast closed, and your senses wrapt in perfect unconsciousness.
-- The boy stirred, and smiled in his sleep, as though these marks of pity and compassion had awakened some pleasant dream of a love and affection he had never known.
-- So far as an overpowering heaviness, a prostration of strength, and an utter inability to control our thoughts or power of motion, can be called sleep, this is it; and yet, we have a consciousness of all that is going on about us, and, if we dream at such a time, words which are really spoken, or sounds which really exist at the moment, accommodate themselves with surprising readiness to our visions, until reality and imagination become so strangely blended that it is afterwards almost matter of impossibility to separate the two.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- - Having been somewhat refreshed with the sleep I had had, and the fit being entirely off, I got up; and though the fright and terror of my dream was very great, yet I considered that the fit of the ague would return again the next day, and now was my time to get something to re-fresh and support myself when I should be ill; and the first thing I did, I filled a large square case-bottle with water, and set it upon my table, in reach of my bed; and to take off the chill or aguish disposition of the water, I put about a quarter of a pint of rum into it, and mixed them together.
-- The impression of my dream revived; and the words, 'All these things have not brought thee to repentance,' ran seriously through my thoughts.
-- CHAPTER XIV - A DREAM REALISEDHAVING now brought all my things on shore and secured them, I went back to my boat, and rowed or paddled her along the shore to her old harbour, where I laid her up, and made the best of my way to my old habitation, where I found everything safe and quiet.
-- I was dreadfully frightened, I must acknowledge, when I perceived him run my way; and especially when, as I thought, I saw him pur-sued by the whole body: and now I expected that part of my dream was coming to pass, and that he would certainly take shelter in my grove; but I could not depend, by any means, upon my dream, that the other savages would not pursue him thither and find him there.
-- Then, calling away, I carried him, not to my castle, but quite away to my cave, on the farther part of the island: so I did not let my dream come to pass in that part, that he came into my grove for shelter.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Most unwilling was she to awaken from such a dream of felicity to comprehend all the unhappy truths which attended the affair; and for some time she refused to submit to them.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once these things were in her hand, on her person, she might dream of giving them up; the method by which they came might intrude itself so forcibly that she would ache to be rid of the thought of it, but she would not give them up.
-- He looked and dreamed a new dream of pleasure which concerned his present fixed condition not at all.
-- He stood up and walked about, dreaming his delightful dream of a life continued with this lovely possessor of his heart.
-- It ached her to know that she was not one of them--that, alas, she had dreamed a dream and it had not come true.
-- In the morning he was aroused out of a pleasant dream by several men stirring about in the cold, cheerless room.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well, I 'uz gwyne to spen' it, but I had a dream, en de dream tole me to give it to a nigger name' Balum Balum's Ass dey call him for short; he's one er dem chuckleheads, you know.
-- De dream say let Balum inves' de ten cents en he'd make a raise for me.
-- 'Dad fetch it, how is I gwyne to dream all dat in ten min-utes?'
-- 'Well, hang it all, you did dream it, because there didn't any of it happen.'
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