| 单词 | imagination |
| 释义 | imagination (ɪmædʒɪneɪʃən ) Word forms: imaginations 1. variable noun B1+ 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. Antonia is a woman with a vivid imagination. Alistair had a logical mind, and little imagination. The Government approach displays a lack of imagination. Synonyms: creativity, vision, invention, ingenuity 2. countable noun B1+ Your imagination is the part of your mind which allows you to form pictures or ideas of things that do not necessarily exist in real life. Long before I ever went there, Africa was alive in my imagination. Synonyms: mind's eye, fancy [old-fashioned, literary] 3. capture/catch sb's imagination 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. Italian football captured the imagination of the nation last season. [+ of] 4. stretch one's imagination phrase If you say that something stretches your imagination, you mean that it is good because it makes you think about things that you had not thought about before. [approval] Their films are exciting and really stretch the imagination. 5. not by any stretch of the imagination phrase If you say that something is not true or possible by any stretch of the imagination, you are emphasizing that it is completely untrue or absolutely impossible. [emphasis] We're not a great football side by any stretch of the imagination. By no stretch of the imagination could his speech be described as impersonal. Quotations: The Possible's slow fuse is lit By the Imagination People can die of mere imaginationThe Miller's Tale Nature uses imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levelsSix Characters in Search of an Author I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to meLittle Essays Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of lifeA Personal Record My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from itWinged: the Creatures on My Mind Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too muchSpeak, Memory Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!Divine Comedy Where there is no imagination there is no horrorA Study in Scarlet His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soarMiscellaneous Writings Collocations: artistic imagination It gripped the artistic imagination between the wars. The Times Literary Supplement (2014) The exhibition looks at the enduring iconography of the Moon in the artistic imagination. Times, Sunday Times (2015) As before, historical fact is mixed with a little good old fashioned artistic imagination. Times, Sunday Times (2008) What happened next almost defies imagination. Times, Sunday Times (2015) The barbarity of Isis continues to defy the imagination. Times, Sunday Times (2015) With a land mass one and a half times that of the US, this is ice and snow on a scale which defies the imagination. Times, Sunday Times (2012) Being able to roam around a big hotel, with ballrooms and three bars, let her exercise her imagination. Times, Sunday Times Parlour games, he argues, 'exercise the imagination and stimulate badly needed creativity and original thinking'. Times, Sunday Times Even in her own family there was usually enough drama to absorb and exercise her imagination, though never to prevent her writing. Times, Sunday Times Without it, the capacity to understand language and to use it effectively, to distinguish honest discourse from propaganda and to exercise the imagination in disciplined and creative ways are blighted. Times, Sunday Times One should, he said, write about what one doesn't know, so as to exercise the imagination. Times, Sunday Times I always had a fertile imagination. Times, Sunday Times (2006) A fertile imagination and applied critical thinking are both required for good science. Times, Sunday Times (2014) And so an idea took root in his fertile imagination. SPICE: The History of a Temptation (2004) Throughout the Middle Ages and beyond, countless other natural phenomena fired the imagination and fuelled speculation. The Times Literary Supplement (2012) The tale of yearning, love, friendship and loss still fires the imagination across a span of almost 5,000 years. Times, Sunday Times (2007) The changes have fired the imagination of others on the island. The Sun (2009) The absorbing exposition reveals how a society dominated by organised crime and corruption has fuelled the imaginations of the new wave of crime writers. Times, Sunday Times What fuels your imagination, even when you are fatigued? Christianity Today But for many, if they live in an inner city where there are fewer chances to explore, stories fuel their imaginations and help them create other worlds. The Sun She's someone who fuels your imagination. Times, Sunday Times Nothing like a legendary feat to inspire the imagination. Times, Sunday Times These books can inspire the imagination at all ages and rhyming ones are great for learning sounds and spelling patterns and developing an enjoyment of language. The Sun These monumental ruins have inspired the imagination of tourists and writers for centuries. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Its monumental ruins have inspired the imaginations of travellers and writers for centuries. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Socialists therefore succeeded in inspiring the imagination of the intellectuals. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 For me, this simply lacks imagination. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Could it be that they lack imagination? The Times Literary Supplement (2011) But she lacked the imagination to see the situation from his point of view. Times, Sunday Times (2007) The literary imagination, her narrator explains, requires heavy, bodily work. The Times Literary Supplement His literary imagination was alive with creative connections, his prose ever musical and elegant. Times, Sunday Times Accordingly, his history has a very broad scope, which favours the deployment of literary imagination. The Times Literary Supplement But military life provided the ridiculous situations and people that fed his literary imagination. Times, Sunday Times Taken as a whole, this book offers up some rich, highly suggestive texts that confirm the idea that the literary imagination was integral to the development of early science. The Times Literary Supplement Your inventive and lively imagination will always keep you company. The Sun No photographs have emerged of the billionaire's condo, but a floor-plan has given bloggers with a lively imagination plenty to talk about. Times, Sunday Times You can sample that production's lively imagination in this set's documentary extra: an hour-long spin through artist interviews and tantalising performance clips. Times, Sunday Times For this, a modern visitor requires some historical knowledge, a lively imagination and above all expert help. Times, Sunday Times An impecunious, rosy-cheeked medical apprentice with a lively imagination, who realises that, after coughing up arterial blood, he has not long to live. Times, Sunday Times But it takes an impoverished view of the human moral imagination. Times, Sunday Times Conservatives do not often display the moral imagination required to think yourself into the position of someone less fortunate than yourself. Times, Sunday Times But this book should primarily be understood as the product of a passionate moral imagination. Times, Sunday Times From this one wonders whether different forms of pedagogy might help us to combine the moral imagination of the former with the empirical findings of the latter. The Times Literary Supplement First and last he wrote in swift, sharp strokes, without the least superfluous detail, testifying at once to the virtues of craft and the long reach of the moral imagination. The Times Literary Supplement And it's always charged with a musical imagination and energy all his own. Times, Sunday Times I don't have the musical imagination to understand what these raw tapes could eventually become when they were fully orchestrated and produced. The Sun The doomy implication of the title carries through to the lyrics, but a musical imagination that hops from kinetic krautrock to scratchy found sounds saves us from wallowing in gloom. Times, Sunday Times Those images force me to come out of myself and go to a new level in my musical imagination. Times, Sunday Times Two teachers, one at primary school, one at secondary school, were instrumental in capturing his musical imagination. Times, Sunday Times My family remember me as a curious and inquisitive youngster, my overactive imagination often running away with me. Times, Sunday Times (2016) There's something oddly childlike about the way you say you suffered panic attacks because of an overactive imagination or a fear of being left alone. Times, Sunday Times (2010) He has an overactive imagination and sometimes I have to switch off the news if it is sinister. Times, Sunday Times (2006) And not just after watching MotoGP from the safety of my sofa while armed with an overactive imagination and a packet of biscuits. The Sun (2008) Between their inability to stand still and overactive imagination, it was a very exhausting and entertaining time. The Sun (2010) A work that wilfully broaches so intangible a subject follows not the logic of rational argument but the erratic flow of a poetic imagination. Times, Sunday Times She was cosmopolitan and sophisticated in her tastes and had no time for weepy sentimentality or empty pretension: clean prose, sharp thinking, cool wit and poetic imagination were her watchwords. Times, Sunday Times But at least back then his poetic imagination roamed a social landscape where such dinosaur concepts as a close connection between footballers and their fans still existed. Times, Sunday Times It has been suggested that the moon here represents the poetic imagination, with which the poet has an easy relationship, even if it sometimes seems to be ruling him. Times, Sunday Times Parks poetic imagination has evolved beyond mere contemplation on self to embrace individual as a part of larger group. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Palermo is the Italy of popular imagination. Times, Sunday Times (2013) After all, popular imagination demanded that so great a general's office be covered with maps. The Constraints of Corporate Tradition (1987) The more epic struggles are vivid in the popular imagination as dramatic moments swiftly followed by triumph. Times, Sunday Times (2009) It's amazing that a great story can still grip the public imagination like this. The Sun (2015) It entered the public imagination. Times, Sunday Times (2006) There is a mystery in woods and trees that captures the public imagination. Times, Sunday Times (2011) Your chart has fresh focus and a spark of pure imagination. The Sun Radio documentaries lie between reporting and pure imagination. Times, Sunday Times All these documents are an entertaining literary conceit, an act of pure imagination. Times, Sunday Times Of course that was pure imagination. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 While some of the pandals are simple structures, others are often elaborate works of art with themes that rely heavily on history, current affairs and sometimes pure imagination. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Museum shops are a great source of unusual, fun and inventive gifts designed to spark the imagination. Times, Sunday Times Often, they turn to other texts and traditions to spark the imagination. Christianity Today It just doesn't spark the imagination like watching the fuse tick down to knock out your enemies. The Sun But brilliant, intuitive players, who really spark the imagination? Times, Sunday Times Apple won't be able to reverse that trend unless it comes up with a new category of gadget to spark the imagination of consumers. Times, Sunday Times Ideas on how to delegate, deal with stress and stimulate the imagination are all included, as well as how to confront your fears and be yourself. The Sun Audiobooks, like radio, stimulate the imagination through the ear. Times, Sunday Times All the same, he mostly fails in his endeavour to 'rise above a tedious account of random events by charting a narrative to stimulate the imagination'. The Times Literary Supplement Her medicines stimulate her imagination, and she envisions him alive again. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 You turn in on yourself and it stimulates the imagination. Times, Sunday Times The message on her T-shirt stirs the imagination. The Sun (2012) An astonishing amount of eighteenth-century London remains to delight the eye and stir the imagination of present-day Londoners. The Times Literary Supplement (2013) Infrastructure investment is part of the answer: ideas that stir the imagination as well as promising a future return. Times, Sunday Times (2013) It demonstrates, despite reservations in some scientific quarters, the crucial role of visual imagination in deepening our understanding of nature and the cosmos. Times, Sunday Times And yet in all of her work, it’s not easy to see a signature look beyond the inventive visual imagination. Smithsonian Mag And manga's visual imagination - the fantastical stories, otherworldly characters and ludic aesthetic - might be traced even further back in time. The Times Literary Supplement Their magically lit production charms us into overlooking the fact that its story can't match its visual imagination and ingenuity. Times, Sunday Times That screenplay helps to ground a film whose visual imagination hovers somewhere between soap opera and a portentous pop surrealism. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Such people have vivid imaginations and often confuse fantasies with reality. The Sun (2009) She has a vivid imagination and reading whisks her off to faraway places. Times, Sunday Times (2009) The people who write these things must have vivid imaginations. Times, Sunday Times (2006) She had a low boredom threshold and a wild imagination. The Times Literary Supplement (2013) Film was a natural outlet for his exuberant and frequently wild imagination. Times, Sunday Times (2011) So where did it come from, this moment of wild imagination that turned the match and put England into the quarter-finals of the rugby union World Cup? Times, Sunday Times (2007) Translations: Chinese: 想象力 Japanese: 想像 |
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