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词汇 Dreamtime
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Definition of Dreamtime in English:

Dreamtime

nounˈdriːmtʌɪmˈdrimtaɪm
  • another term for Alcheringa
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Stories of the Aboriginal Dreamtime refer to giant animals, much bigger than today's.
    • In this untouched wonderland you come to believe that you are following in the tracks of the rainbow serpent, who is said to have gouged out the gorge in the Dreamtime.
    • For many white inner-city sophisticates, Aborigines are best kept in the Dreamtime and ‘multiculturalism’ ends at the restaurant.
    • This present political relevance of the Dreamtime helps to blur the distinction between past and present.
    • I'm fascinated especially by the idea of the Aboriginal Dreamtime which, from what I gather, is the story of the world being dreamt into existence.
    • We stopped at the visitor center for a cup of coffee and a look at the displays, which were all to do with interpretations of the Dreamtime - the Aborigines' traditional conception of how the earth was formed and operates.
    • Graham wanted to create ‘instructional relationships which extend back to the Dreamtime and relate Aboriginal people to the land’.
    • So in 1,000 years time they'll look back on this period as being part of the Dreamtime, and I'm recording what's happening now for our future generations.
    • Since the Dreamtime, indigenous culture has been much more advanced than most anthropologists believe.
    • Reminds me of the Dreamtime in Aboriginal culture, and other ‘spirit quest’ cultures, where historical time is mapped to landscape, and venturing out is tied to encountering one's ancestors.
    • I really enjoy Paul Davies' books because they are well thought out, inclusive, you know in his book about time you get discussions of the Dreamtime, of different ways of thinking about time without that dismissive sort of tone.
    • What the Arrente is, is not explored as far as I can ascertain, but we are given more information about Dreamtime: in most Aboriginal languages there are words referring to the Dreamtime.
    • And our theory that the Australian aborigines had sailed and paddled in from India, during the Dreamtime of the last Ice Age, found confirmation in Canberra.
    • The myths and legends of the Aboriginal people, including their accounts of the creation of the world, are known as the Dreamtime.
    • We are denying most of our children their cultural heritage, their knowledge of a Dreamtime that belongs to all Australians.
    • He walked a territory inhabited by mythical figures of the Dreaming time; his tribal ceremonies celebrated the events of the Dreamtime in song and dance and ritual.
    • On the Discovery Channel they said it had something to do with the Aborigine belief in the Dreamtime, but mostly I think they say things like that on TV when they're not sure what's going on.
    • And I run a number of Dreamtime courses, and people say to me, ‘Why do you want to teach the Dreamtime to Whitefellas, or to non-Aboriginal people?’
    • Moreover, for the Aborigines, the whole idea of the Dreamtime presupposes a realm of existence quite outside the temporal order of the material world in which they live.
    • In the Dreamtime, every creation could transform into another, so that a wattle tree could become a water lily, the emu could become an egret, a desert could become a man or a woman.

Definition of Dreamtime in US English:

Dreamtime

nounˈdrēmtīmˈdrimtaɪm
  • (in the mythology of some Australian Aborigines) the “golden age” when the first ancestors were created.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Moreover, for the Aborigines, the whole idea of the Dreamtime presupposes a realm of existence quite outside the temporal order of the material world in which they live.
    • For many white inner-city sophisticates, Aborigines are best kept in the Dreamtime and ‘multiculturalism’ ends at the restaurant.
    • This present political relevance of the Dreamtime helps to blur the distinction between past and present.
    • And I run a number of Dreamtime courses, and people say to me, ‘Why do you want to teach the Dreamtime to Whitefellas, or to non-Aboriginal people?’
    • He walked a territory inhabited by mythical figures of the Dreaming time; his tribal ceremonies celebrated the events of the Dreamtime in song and dance and ritual.
    • What the Arrente is, is not explored as far as I can ascertain, but we are given more information about Dreamtime: in most Aboriginal languages there are words referring to the Dreamtime.
    • Since the Dreamtime, indigenous culture has been much more advanced than most anthropologists believe.
    • Stories of the Aboriginal Dreamtime refer to giant animals, much bigger than today's.
    • Reminds me of the Dreamtime in Aboriginal culture, and other ‘spirit quest’ cultures, where historical time is mapped to landscape, and venturing out is tied to encountering one's ancestors.
    • On the Discovery Channel they said it had something to do with the Aborigine belief in the Dreamtime, but mostly I think they say things like that on TV when they're not sure what's going on.
    • And our theory that the Australian aborigines had sailed and paddled in from India, during the Dreamtime of the last Ice Age, found confirmation in Canberra.
    • We stopped at the visitor center for a cup of coffee and a look at the displays, which were all to do with interpretations of the Dreamtime - the Aborigines' traditional conception of how the earth was formed and operates.
    • Graham wanted to create ‘instructional relationships which extend back to the Dreamtime and relate Aboriginal people to the land’.
    • In the Dreamtime, every creation could transform into another, so that a wattle tree could become a water lily, the emu could become an egret, a desert could become a man or a woman.
    • In this untouched wonderland you come to believe that you are following in the tracks of the rainbow serpent, who is said to have gouged out the gorge in the Dreamtime.
    • The myths and legends of the Aboriginal people, including their accounts of the creation of the world, are known as the Dreamtime.
    • So in 1,000 years time they'll look back on this period as being part of the Dreamtime, and I'm recording what's happening now for our future generations.
    • We are denying most of our children their cultural heritage, their knowledge of a Dreamtime that belongs to all Australians.
    • I'm fascinated especially by the idea of the Aboriginal Dreamtime which, from what I gather, is the story of the world being dreamt into existence.
    • I really enjoy Paul Davies' books because they are well thought out, inclusive, you know in his book about time you get discussions of the Dreamtime, of different ways of thinking about time without that dismissive sort of tone.
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