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有个卢生,在邯郸旅店中遇见一个道士吕翁,卢生自叹穷困。道士借给他一个枕头,要他枕着睡觉。这时店家正煮小米饭。卢生在梦中享尽了一生荣华富贵。一觉醒来,小米饭还没有熟(见于唐沈既济《枕中记》)。后用来比喻想要实现的好事落得一场空。也说黄粱美梦、一枕黄粱。
[Golden Millet Dream (from the story of a poor scholar who dreamt that he had become a high official but awoke to find only the pot of millet still cooking on the fire);pipe dream] 比喻虚幻的梦想。典出唐·沈既济《枕中记》,说卢生在梦中享尽了荣华富贵,醒来时,蒸的黄粱米饭尚未熟,只落得一场空