| 词组 | dream |
| 释义 | dream 1. The verb dream has the past and past participle forms dreamt and dreamed. Evidence in the OED suggests dreamt is somewhat older than dreamed; Lamberts 1972 suggests that dreamed is the earlier form, and the evidence in the Middle English Dictionary allows that possibility. Both forms are nearly 700 years old in any case. Phythian 1979 says that dreamt is the more common form in England; our evidence confirms his observation. Watt 1967, Shaw 1987, and Lamberts find dreamed more common in the U.S.; the Brown Corpus (Kuèera & Francis 1967) strongly backs their contention, while our evidence finds both forms flourishing in American use. 2. We have been surprised to find that the usage writers, most of them inveterate critics of redundancy, seem not to object to the tautologous "dreamed a dream." The expression is, of course, entirely standard: • I had almost forgotten to tell you of a dream which I dreamed —Emily Dickinson, letter, 21 Oct. 1847 • ... a dream he had dreamt while awake —Joyce Carol Oates, Harper's, August 1971 3. Shaw 1987 mentions dream taking of before a gerund; of can also be used with a noun object, and so can about: • ... men who might never have dreamed of advocating massacres —New Yorker, 10 Apr. 1971 • ... she often dreamt of the assassination of Kennedy —Joyce Carol Oates, McCall's, July 1971 • I dreamt about the boy who Rock and big Stoop had thrown off that roof —Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, 1965 • He dreamt again about somebody else's bulldozers clearing his land —Mordecai Richler, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, 1959 |
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