英语词汇the lie of the pipe dream的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

the lie of the pipe dream. Although one of the most famous phrases in American literature, the lie of the pipe dream is sel- dom, if ever, collected. It is from Eugene O’Neill’s play The Ice- man Cometh (1946), which takes place in Harry Hope’s saloon, where O’Neill’s guilt-ridden characters cling to pipe dreams about their lives, illusions that the salesman Hickey shatters for them. One character, the anarchist Larry Slade, decides that they can’t live without their illusions, that “the lie of the pipe dream is what gives life” to people like themselves. See pipe dream.

词汇	the lie of the pipe dream
词源	the lie of the pipe dream. Although one of the most famous phrases in American literature, the lie of the pipe dream is sel- dom, if ever, collected. It is from Eugene O’Neill’s play The Ice- man Cometh (1946), which takes place in Harry Hope’s saloon, where O’Neill’s guilt-ridden characters cling to pipe dreams about their lives, illusions that the salesman Hickey shatters for them. One character, the anarchist Larry Slade, decides that they can’t live without their illusions, that “the lie of the pipe dream is what gives life” to people like themselves. See pipe dream.
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