1N-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.
2N-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.
3PHRASE 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。
4PHRASE 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 ImaginationEmily Dickinson
People can die of mere imaginationGeoffrey ChaucerThe Miller's Tale
Nature uses imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levelsLuigi PirandelloSix Characters in Search of an Author
I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to meGeorge SantayanaLittle 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 lifeJoseph ConradA Personal Record
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from itUrsula Le GuinWinged: 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 muchVladimir NabokovSpeak, Memory
Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!DanteDivine Comedy
Where there is no imagination there is no horrorSir Arthur Conan DoyleA Study in Scarlet
His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soarLord MacaulayMiscellaneous Writings
Word Partnership
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ADJ.
active imagination, lively imagination, vivid imagination1