We get so caught up in that fantasy that we become addicted to the dream itself. Yet we are scared of seeing it realized, of it becoming reality.

我们太陷入那种幻想的观点了，以至于我们开始沉醉于梦想本身。我们甚至害怕看到它的实现或看到它成为现实。

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The long-cherished dream of conquering the Huanghe River will become a reality.

征服黄河的梦想将会成为现实。

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The dream lives on only in the minds of enthusiasts as something that one day might become a reality.

这个梦想只能存在于那些狂热者的想象中了，就好像一些东西有可能在某一天会变为现实一样。

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The poem identifies also cold and passion with dawn the moment of awakening, which is also a moment of coming into reality from dream and sleep.

诗歌还将黎明的寒冷与激情,比作一种觉醒时刻,从睡梦和幻想回到现实的时刻。

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Frost is also here specifically writing against the early poetry of Yeats, which you'll read next week, poetry that finds reality exactly in "dream," and that has plenty of fairies and elves in it.

这里弗罗斯特也特别的与叶芝的早期诗歌不同，你们下周会读到叶芝的，他的诗歌在梦中找到现实“,里面有一些小精灵。

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It would appear that, in the first decade of the 21st Century, the dream of escaping to the country became a reality for tens of thousands of urban white Britons.

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In 40 short chapters Mr Ben Jelloun weaves together a tapestry of exile and loss as he follows his characters through the dream and reality of leaving Tangier.

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The mountaintop fact is that the Obama story is the perfect exposition of the American dream of success and, for many, its reality.

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