imagination
柯林斯词典
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. 拉坦尼娅是一个想像力丰富的女人。
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脑海中了。
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. 引起某人的兴趣
Their music continues to capture the imagination of the American public. 他们的音乐持续吸引着美国公众的兴趣。
4. not by any stretch of the imagination→see stretch
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imagination /ɪˌmædʒɪˈneɪʃən/ (imaginations)
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- 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。
For 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。
It 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。
There'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。
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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?
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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。
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