俗话说，日有所思，夜有所梦。

如果说美梦由美好的愿望和期许孕育而成，那么噩梦则可能源于压力和焦虑。

不过，噩梦中出现的意象可不能从表面意义上去理解……

Within the hazy realm of nightmares, a cigar is never a cigar. Dreams are categorically symbolic, and the images within them should never be accepted for their face value. If you interpret them as such, you're likely to miss the important issues your subconscious may be trying to convey.

在含混朦胧的噩梦中，雪茄并非只是雪茄。梦具有绝对的象征意义，梦中那些意象也绝不是表面上的意义。如果你这样理解梦境，那么就可能会错过潜意识试图向你传达的关键信息。

Having a dream about natural disaster or particularly exasperating car trouble doesn't necessarily represent a fear of these events actually taking place. More often than not, these nightmares reflect your inner feelings toward a pressing predicament in your waking-life.

梦到自然灾害或者恼人的汽车故障不一定意味着你担心这些事会真实发生。通常情况下，这些噩梦折射出的是你内心对实际生活中紧迫困境的感受。

predicament /prɪ'dɪkəm(ə)nt/：困境

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- 考砸了 -

考砸了是人们最常做的梦之一！

Even if you've been long removed from the day-to-day realities of class schedules and the quadratic formula, you still might have midnight hauntings of pop-quizzes and impossible exams.

即使早就远离了天天上课学习和解二次方程式的日子，你仍然可能在午夜梦中，被突击测试和无法解答的考卷吓得惊魂不定。