building castles in the air的意思|示意

Some cynics would argue literature to be all about 'flights of fantasy' and 'doing nothing but building castles in the air and writing about it.

一些持怀疑态度的人认为文学只不过是“在幻想中翱翔”和“除了构建空中楼阁并把它描述下来外，没有任何意义。”

Before you start building castles in the air, just think how much all this is likely to cost.

在你开始建立空中楼阁之前，不如先想想你需要付出多少代价。

As he walked along, his brain was busy planning hundreds of wonderful things, building hundreds of castles in the air.

当他走着的时候，他的脑子里正忙着计划许多奇妙的事情，建起一座座空中楼阁。

You'd better stop building castles in the air and get down to some practical work.

你最好不要再作种种空想，该踏踏实实做些事了。

There we worked, revising mythology, rounding a fable here and there, and building castles in the air for which earth offered no worthy foundation.

我们在那儿工作，考订神话、修正寓言，造空中楼阁，因为地上找不到有价值的基础。

There is more pleasure in building castles in the air than on the ground.

在空中建筑楼阁比在地上建筑更为有趣。