Imagination
[ ɪ,mædʒɪ'neʃən ]
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n. 想像，想像力;空想，妄想;想像出来的事物;
💡 词根助记
imagin=imagine想象+ation表名词 →想象
📝 例句
Of course nobody was trying to kill him. -- It was all imagination.
当然没有人试图杀害他--那全是幻觉。
a morbid imagination
病态的想像
It was but imagination, yet imagination had all the terrors of reality.
这不过是幻想，但是幻想也招来真实的恐怖。
He is a man of imagination.
他是一个富有想像力的人。
Good literature quickens the imagination.
好的文学作品能激发想像力。
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📖 牛津释义
imagination
n
1
(a) [U, C] ability to form mental images or pictures 想像力
He hasn't much imagination. 他缺乏想像力.
Her talk captured (ie gripped and stimulated) the imagination of the whole class. 她的谈话吸引了全班的同学, 激发了他们的想像力.
(b) [C] part of the mind that does this 想像
In my imagination, I thought I heard her calling me. 我在想像中彷佛听到她在呼唤我.
2 [U] use of this ability in a practical or creative way 想像力的运用
His writing lacks imagination. 他的写作缺乏想像力.
Use your imagination to find an answer. 运用你的想像力来寻找答案.
3 [U] thing experienced in the mind and not in reality 想像出来的事物; 幻想物
I can't have seen a ghost it must have been imagination. 我看到的不可能是鬼--一定是幻想的东西吧.
Is it my imagination or have you lost a lot of weight? 是我的错觉呢, 还是你真的瘦了许多?
4 (idm 习语) the mind/imagination boggles => boggle. not by any/by no stretch of the imagination => stretch n.
🔁 扩展释义
*[i,mædʒi'neiʃәn]n. 想像, 听觉, 想像力【医】 想像
🏥 医学释义
想象
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What's your position in the company?
你在公司任何职务？
Only certain people are permitted to enter that club.
只有特定的人才被允许进入该俱乐部。
The ground supported fewer plants, and the insects which lived on these plants died out.
地上长的植物少了，生活在这些植物上的昆虫就消亡了。