imagination
柯林斯詞典
1. N-VAR 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. 想像力
Latanya is a woman with a vivid imagination. 拉坦尼婭是一個想像力豐富的女人。
2. N-COUNT Your imagination is the part of your mind that allows you to form pictures or ideas of things that do not necessarily exist in real life. 想像
Long before I ever went there, Africa was alive in my imagination. 早在我去非洲之前,它就栩栩如生地在我的腦海中了。
3. PHRASE 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. 引起某人的興趣
Their music continues to capture the imagination of the American public. 他們的音樂持續(xù)吸引著美國公眾的興趣。
4. not by any stretch of the imagination→see stretch
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imagination /??m?d???ne???n/ (imaginations)
劍橋詞典
- B1 [ 可數(shù)名詞:有復(fù)數(shù)形式的名詞 or 不可數(shù)或單數(shù)名詞:沒有復(fù)數(shù)形式的名詞 ]
- 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.
- 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.
- One of poetry's functions is to somehow unlock the imagination. 返回 imagination
the ability to form pictures in the mind
想象力
My younger son has a very vivid (= active ) imagination. 我的小兒子想象力很豐富。
I can never make up stories - I have absolutely no imagination. 我從來都不會編故事——我根本沒什么想象力。
For some reason the story captured /caught the imagination of the public (= made them very interested ). 由于某種原因,這件事引起了公眾的關(guān)注。
It couldn't by any stretch of the imagination be described as a (= it is certainly not a) beautiful city . 這座城市再怎么說也稱不上漂亮。
There's a sex scene in the film which apparently leaves nothing to the imagination (= shows sexual parts of the body very clearly ). 這部電影中有一個十分露骨的性愛場面,沒有留下任何想象的余地。
[ 不可數(shù)或單數(shù)名詞:沒有復(fù)數(shù)形式的名詞 ]
something that you think exists or is true , although in fact it is not real or true
幻覺;幻想;空想
Was she paying him a lot of attention or was it just my imagination? 她是特別注意他呢,還是這一切只是我的臆想?
Is it my imagination or is David behaving strangely at the moment ? 是我的錯覺呢,還是戴維現(xiàn)在真的是行為古怪?
[ 不可數(shù)或單數(shù)名詞:沒有復(fù)數(shù)形式的名詞 ]
the ability to think of new ideas
創(chuàng)造力
It's a job that needs someone with a bit of imagination. 做這項工作需要有一點兒創(chuàng)造力。
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