英语词汇imagination怎么读，是什么意思，单词翻译、读音、固定搭配用法和短语词组及例句-英汉双解词典

imagination

ɪmædʒɪneɪʃən  ɪˌmædʒɪˈneɪʃən 

Word forms: plural imaginations

1 N-VAR 想象;想象力 Your imagination is the ability that you have to form pictures or ideas in your mind of things that are new and exciting, or things that you have not experienced. 想象;想象力

Antonia is a woman with a vivid imagination.

安东尼娅是个想象力丰富的女人。
Alistair had a logical mind, and little imagination.

阿利斯泰尔逻辑思维能力很强,但缺乏想象力。
The Government approach displays a lack of imagination.

政府的方案显得缺乏想象力。

SYN creativity, vision, invention, ingenuity

2 N-COUNT 想象；空想；幻想 Your imagination is the part of your mind which allows you to form pictures or ideas of things that do not necessarily exist in real life. 想象；空想；幻想

Long before I ever went there, Africa was alive in my imagination.

早在我真正踏足之前很久,非洲就已在我的脑海中活灵活现了。

SYN mind's eye, fancy [old-fashioned , literary]

3 PHRASE 吸引…的注意力;摄人魂魄;引人入胜 If you say that someone or something captured your imagination, you mean that you thought they were interesting or exciting when you saw them or heard them for the first time. 吸引…的注意力;摄人魂魄;引人入胜

Italian football captured the imagination of the nation last season. [+ of]

上个赛季意大利足球吸引了全国上下的注意。

4 PHRASE 发人深省;予人启迪 If you say that something stretches your imagination, you mean that it is good because it makes you think about things that you had not thought about before. 发人深省;予人启迪 [approval]

Their films are exciting and really stretch the imagination.

他们的电影非常精彩且发人深省。

5 not by any stretch of the imagination→see: stretch

Quotations

The Possible's slow fuse is lit
By the Imagination Emily Dickinson

People can die of mere imagination Geoffrey Chaucer The Miller's Tale

Nature uses imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels Luigi Pirandello Six Characters in Search of an Author

I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me George Santayana Little Essays

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life Joseph Conrad A Personal Record

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it Ursula Le Guin Winged: the Creatures on My Mind

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much Vladimir Nabokov Speak, Memory

Imagination, that dost so abstract us
That we are not aware, not even when
A thousand trumpets sound about our ears! Dante Divine Comedy

Where there is no imagination there is no horror Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A Study in Scarlet

His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar Lord Macaulay Miscellaneous Writings

Word Partnership

Word Partnership	Use imagination with:
ADJ.	active imagination, lively imagination, vivid imagination 1
PREP.	beyond (someone's) imagination 1
N.	lack of imagination 1

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