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| /ɪˈmædʒɪn/ |
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| 1 | T to form a picture of something or someone in your mind 想象，设想（画面） |
| She tried to imagine the scene. 她努力想象那场面。 |
| +(that) Imagine that you are lying on a beach. 设想一下你正躺在海滩上。 |
| imagine (sb) doing sth Imagine yourself sitting behind your big new desk. 想象一下你坐在自己新的大书桌后。 |
| imagine sb/sth as sth I imagine him as a distinguished old gentleman. 我把他想象成一位高贵的老绅士。 |
| imagine sb/sth to be sth I think they imagine the company to be bigger than it is. 我认为他们想象中的该公司比实际的要大。 |
| | 1a | to have an idea of what something is like or what it might be like 想象（某物的样子或可能的样子） | | It’ s hard to imagine a more unpleasant job. 很难想象出一份更糟糕的工作了。 | | imagine/you can imagine/just imagine sth Imagine my surprise when they announced I had won! 想想他们宣布我获胜时，我有多惊喜啊！ | | +(that) He had never imagined that digging was such hard work. 他从来没想到挖掘是这么艰难的工作。 | | +what/why/how etc You can imagine what the newspapers would do if they ever found out about this. 你可以想象一旦报界发现这事，他们会怎么做。 | | fondly imagine (=have a mistaken idea about something) I had fondly imagined that riding a camel would be easy. 盲目地以为 | |
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| 2 | T to have an idea that something exists or is happening , when in fact it does not exist or is not happening 臆想，幻想（不存在或未发生的事） |
| She always imagines the worst (=thinks the worst possible thing has happened) . 她总是往最坏处想。 |
| ‘There! I heard it again!’ ‘There’ s nothing there – you’ re just imagining things!’ “在那儿！我又听到了！”“那儿什么也没有。你只是在瞎想！” |
| +(that) In these situations, you imagine everyone is laughing at you. 在这些情形下，你以为每个人都在取笑你。 |
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| 3 | I/T used for showing that you are surprised by something or cannot believe it （用于表示惊讶或难以置信）设想，想象 |
| imagine doing sth Imagine going out dressed like that! 设想一下外出时穿成那样！ |
| (just) imagine/imagine that She now earns over 20 million dollars a film! Just imagine that! 她现在每部影片赚两千多万美元！想象一下吧！ |
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| 4 | T to think that something is probably true 猜想；推测 |
| It’ s difficult, I imagine, to keep your interest alive after doing the job for 30 years. 我猜想要对一份干了30年的工作依然保持兴趣是很难的。 |
| +(that) I imagine they’ ll have left already. 我推测他们会已经离开了。 |
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