英汉词典

imagination 基本解释

n.

想像，想像力；空想，妄想；想像出来的事物；

变形

复数：imaginations

双语释义

n.(名词)[U][C]想象力 the ability to imagine[C]空想,想象 the mind[U]想象出来的东西,幻想物 sth only imagined and not real

英英释义

imagination[ i,mædʒi'neiʃən ]

n.the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses

"popular imagination created a world of demons"; "imagination reveals what the world could be"

同义词：imaginativenessvision

the ability to form mental images of things or events

"he could still hear her in his imagination"

同义词：imagingimagerymental imagery

the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems

同义词：resourceresourcefulness

imagination 相关例句

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)动词+～

• defy sb's imagination令某人难以想象
• develop imagination培养想象力
• lack imagination缺乏想象力
• show imagination显示出想象力

形容词+～

• creative imagination创造性的想象力
• wild imagination荒诞的想象
• active imagination活跃的想象力

介词+～

• beyond imagination无法想象
• in one's imagination在遐想中
• with imagination运用想象力

词组短语

capture the imagination of激发...的想象力

just my imagination只是幻觉；只是我的幻想

同近义词辨析

fantasy, fancy, imagination

这组词都有“想象，幻想”的意思，其区别是：

fantasy指与现实完全脱节，荒诞离谱、稀奇古怪的想象。

fancy指脱离实际的幻想或幻想力，常暗含所想象的东西近乎怪诞的意味。

imagination含义广，一般不含贬义。可指认真、带有启发性的想象，也可指凭记忆的想象或凭空想象事物的能力。

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

1. That's beyond the reach of my imagination.
   那是我想象不到的。
2. Imagination raises a man above the humdrum of life.
   想象使人从单调无聊的生活中解脱出来。
3. These plans reveal a complete failure of imagination.
   这些计划显得毫无想象力。
4. A sketch can stimulate one's own imagination.
   图形能促进一个人的想象力。
5. He tried to practice upon the imagination and credulity of the public.
   他企图利用群众的空想和轻信。
6. You didn't really see a ghost, it's only imagination.
   你并没有真地看见鬼，这仅仅是幻象。

权威例句

The dialogic imagination :
Theory Construction as Disciplined Imagination
A Universe of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination
'Discourse in the Novel', in the Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays
Between Space and Time: Reflections on the Geographical Imagination
The body in the mind : the bodily basis of meaning, imagination, and reason
The body in the mind: The bodily basis of meaning, imagination, and reason.
The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture by Lawrence Buell
The madwoman in the attic :the woman writer and thenineteenth-century literary imagination
Brad D. Lookingbill — Dust Bowl, USA: Depression America and the Ecological Imagination, 1929-1941; Brian Griffith — The Gardens o...