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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If you cheat in a test, you've really only cheating yourself.
如果你在测验中作弊的话，你欺骗的只有你自己。
If he doesn't stay, who will?
如果他不，谁要留下？
I doubt if he'll be asked to speak again next year.
我怀疑明年是否还会邀请他作报告。