20091011Word of the Day

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reverie

\REV-uh-ree\ , noun:
1.A state of dreamy meditation or fanciful musing.
2.A daydream.
3.A fantastic, visionary, or impractical idea.
4.Music. An instrumental composition of a vague and dreamy character.
名词 n.
1.白日梦;幻想
2.【音】幻想曲

Quotes:
Walking seems to have become Rousseau's chosen mode of being because within a walk he is able to live in thought and reverie, to be self-sufficient, and thus to survive the world he feels has betrayed him.
~Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
He was pulled out of his reverie by the buzzing of his cell phone.
~Robert O'Harrow, No Place to Hide
From reveries so airy, from the toil
Of dropping buckets into empty wells,
And growing old in drawing nothing up.
~William Cowper, The Task. Book iii. The Garden. Line 188.

Origin:
Reverie is from Middle English, revelry, from Old French, from rever, to dream.