| 词汇 | imagination |
| 释义 | imagination noun uk /ɪˌmædʒ.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/ us /ɪˌmædʒ.əˈneɪ.ʃən/ B1[ C or U ] the ability to form pictures in the mind: 想象力 vivid imaginationMy younger son has a very vivid (= active) imagination.我的小儿子想象力很丰富。 I can never make up stories - I have absolutely no imagination.我从来都不会编故事——我根本没什么想象力。 capture/catch the imagination ofFor some reason the story captured/caught the imagination of the public (= made them very interested).由于某种原因，这件事引起了公众的关注。 by any stretch of the imaginationIt couldn't by any stretch of the imagination be described as a (= it is certainly not a) beautiful city.这座城市再怎么说也称不上漂亮。 leave nothing to the imaginationThere's a sex scene in the film which apparently leaves nothing to the imagination (= shows sexual parts of the body very clearly).这部电影中有一个十分露骨的性爱场面，没有留下任何想象的余地。 imagination imaginationYou’ve always had a very vivid imagination. creativityThe aim of the award is to encourage creativity and innovation. visionHe was a man of great vision. inventivenessHis domestic designs display an unending inventiveness and account for his best work. ingenuityThis housewife's ingenuity led to the creation of a number of great new household products. originalityHer photographic portraits can hardly be accused of lacking originality. [ U ] something that you think exists or is true, although in fact it is not real or true: 幻觉;幻想;空想 Was she paying him a lot of attention or was it just my imagination?她是特别注意他呢，还是这一切只是我的臆想？ Is it my imagination or is David behaving strangely at the moment?是我的错觉呢，还是戴维现在真的是行为古怪？ B1[ U ] the ability to think of new ideas: 创造力 It's a job that needs someone with a bit of imagination.做这项工作需要有一点儿创造力。 Was it just my imagination or did I hear John's voice in the other room? He's one of those people with a very vivid imagination - every time he hears a noise he's convinced it's someone breaking in.他是那种想象力异常丰富的人——每次听到声响都以为是有人闯进来了。 The American drive to land a man on the Moon captured the imagination of the whole world. Her imagination was kindled by the exciting stories her grandmother told her.她祖母给她讲述的精彩故事激发了她的想象力。 One of poetry's functions is to somehow unlock the imagination. Imagining and conceiving assume beyond your wildest dreamsidiom blue-sky cognitive map conceivable fancy guess imagine in your mind's eyeidiom inconceivably lay the foundation(s) of/foridiom look on/upon someone/something as something manifest regard retheorization retheorize revisualization riot run riotidiom throw You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Dreaming imagination | American Dictionaryimagination noun[ U ] us/ɪˌmædʒ·əˈneɪ·ʃən/ the ability to form mental pictures of people or things, or to have new ideas: Rafael has a very active imagination (= has many ideas). Examples of imaginationimagination His research focuses on the architectural imagination in technical drawing. The abstraction by our imagination means we earn the approbation (or disapprobation) from those unlike as well as those like us. Music offers the opportunity for every child to move on from where they are, in skills, understanding and imagination. But first, let us consider some evidence of his visual imagination. In 2004, as in 1968, perhaps the best antidote to timidity is the ungovernable wildness of the imagination. Rather, the focus of inquiry should be on the imagination since both theoretical reason and practical reason make use of imagination in their own way. The crime attracted interest and scandal and by the second half of the eighteenth century had established a strong hold over the public imagination. Now, not only was the dramatic content of the written play probing the listener's intellect, but strange new sounds were stretching the imagination. These artisans would be more prone to think up foolish schemes created by an imagination uncontrolled by reason and experience. Her imagination was sleeping, or she had no artistic imagination at all. This is reminiscent of the extraordinary relationship which amputees develop with their artificial replacements, revealing a whole inner mysterious world of feeling and imagination. Travelling in space to ' exotic ' realms evidently encourages the imagination to travel in time. What makes this episode resonate as a vernacular form of archaeological thinking buried deep in the literary imagination of the mid-19th century? Here that is left to the imagination of the reader and a more quantitative method is used to demonstrate the existence of the pulses. It also shows that even radical writers were often unable to dispel the monarchy from their imaginations. See all examples of imagination These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withimaginationimaginationThese are words often used in combination with imagination. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. active imagination The object of his methods was to enhance a natural process of individuation emergent through techniques of activeimagination (a sort of controlled daydream). fertile imagination He has a fertileimagination. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 historical imagination This was not simply a failure of historicalimagination, nor was it a product of intellectual carelessness or political myopia. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with imagination |
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