| 词汇 | imagining |
| 释义 | imagining present participle ofimagine imagine verb[ T ] uk /ɪˈmædʒ.ɪn/ us /ɪˈmædʒ.ɪn/ B1 to form or have a mental picture or idea of something: 想象;设想 Imagine Robert Redford when he was young - that's what John looks like.想象一下罗伯特‧雷德福年轻时的样子——那就是约翰的模样。 [ + (that) ]Imagine (that) you're eating ice cream - try to feel how cold it is.设想你在吃冰激凌——试着体会一下它有多么冷。 [ + question word ]Can you imagine how it feels to be blind?你能想象失明的感觉吗？ [ + -ing verb ]She imagined herself sitting in her favourite chair back home.她想象自己正坐在家中最喜欢的扶手椅上。 imagine (that)They hadn't imagined (= expected) (that) it would be so difficult.他们没想到会这么难。 I can't imagine (= I really don't know) what he wants from us.我想不出他想从我们这儿得到些什么。 to imagine something imagineYou can just imagine her storing up these anecdotes for her dinner parties. think ofI want you to think of a time when you felt happy. pictureCan you picture yourself at the age of 60 doing what you do now? pictureWhen I say 'your car' you have a picture of that in your head. in your mind's eyeIn my mind's eye, I'm still a uni student and not a middle-aged worker. conceiveI can't conceive why anyone would want to hurt her. B2 to believe that something is probably true: 猜想，猜测 [ + (that) ]I imagine (that) he's under a lot of pressure at the moment.我猜想他现在面临的压力一定很大。 imagine (that)I don't imagine (that) they have much money.我想他们不会有很多钱。 imagine so"Will they change it?" "I imagine so."“他们会改变它吗？”“我想会的。” B1 to think that something exists or is true, although in fact it is not real or true: 误以为 be imagining things"Did you hear a noise?" "No, you're imagining things/No, you must have imagined it."“你听见什么动静了吗？”“没有，你听错了吧／没有，你一定是听错了。” I've never heard her criticize you - I think you imagine it.我从来没有听见她批评过你——我想你在胡思乱想。 used to express shock or surprise, often at someone else's behaviour: （常用来表示对他人行为的惊讶、震惊）难以想象 She got married at 16! Imagine that!她16岁就结婚了！不可思议！ [ + -ing verb ]Imagine spending all that money on a coat!花那么多钱买一件大衣，真是匪夷所思！ you can't imagine used to emphasize a statement: （表示强调）你无法想象 You can't imagine what a mess the house was in after the party.你简直想象不到聚会之后屋内有多乱。 Spending Christmas with him and his brother - I can't imagine anything worse!跟他兄弟俩一起过圣诞节？我可想象不出比这更糟糕的事了！ Try to imagine what life must have been like for Neolithic man 10 000 years ago.想象一下1万年前新石器时代人的生活是什么样子。 "Did you hear a noise?" "No, you're imagining things." You can't imagine what it would be like to have your child die - it's quite unthinkable. He has the most awful taste so you can probably imagine what his house looks like. Imagining and conceiving assume beyond your wildest dreamsidiom blue-sky cognitive map conceivable fancy fertility imagine impute something to someone in your mind's eyeidiom inconceivably lay the foundation(s) of/foridiom look on/upon someone/something as something regard reimagine retheorization retheorize revisualization riot throw You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Guessing, supposing and suspecting Expressions of surprise Examples of imaginingimagining In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The way information is processed in an imagining engine is similar to that in the human brain in the aspects of functional and structural similarities. One can visualize this by imagining a point and its image connected by a piece of elastic string. There are countless anecdotes of inventive optimists who succeeded where others failed by imagining waiting customers. Imagining the life-span : from premodern miracles to postmodern fantasies. The two projects presented here experiment in different media with the imagining of a world in distraction. In this imagining, democratic state-building derived legitimacy from its theoretical antithesis: personal power derived from a personal crime. As we have seen, an objection that quickly comes to mind is that we have little trouble imagining worlds better than ours. One may, for example, be asked to participate in a drill while imagining that one is playing in the upcoming championship. He thinks that one will obviously be imagining an empty, immaterial extension. It is simply the avowal of introspection, just as one might report imagining anything else visual, tactile, or auditory. The authors strip away these layers, without ever imagining that they will get to an unproblematic core. The left hemisphere may be needed to attend to, or generate, self-action; this explains left lateralization for apraxia, imitation of another, and imagining self-action. In fact his ideas on the nature of nations and democracy had been established whilst imagining the future of the empire, not its end. He was also less capable than they were of imagining that the rupture caused by the revolution could be undone. What are moral philosophers imagining as the social realization of the views they propose and defend? 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. |
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