单词	imaginary
释义	imaginaryi‧ma‧gi‧na‧ry /ɪˈmædʒənəri $ -neri/ ●○○ adjective Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Frankie was the kind of guy who lived in an imaginary world all of his own. He pointed an imaginary gun at me and pretended to shoot. Many young children have imaginary playmates. The events described in the book are imaginary. When Linda was a child she had an imaginary friend called Booboo. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS As if Pike was behind an imaginary glass wall, cut off from the rest of the Church. Cadets are in disarray, Directing Staff shouting advice and encouragement, and the imaginary enemy winning! Father saw me throwing imaginary punches on the stairs, and asked me to show him. If such individuals and such imaginary conversations could provide Mrs Clinton with guidance, she had every right to seek them out. She'd always had to have an imaginary life simultaneously, as the real one was inadequate. The individual suspends his critical judgement and involvement in external reality to becoming passively absorbed in an imaginary world. We've used an imaginary case history to illustrate them. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorsomething that you imagine► imaginary not real, but existing only as a picture or idea in your mind: · When Linda was a child she had an imaginary friend called Booboo.· He pointed an imaginary gun at me and pretended to shoot.· Frankie was the kind of guy who lived in an imaginary world all of his own. ► fantasy an exciting or enjoyable experience that you imagine happening to you, but which will probably never happen: · Everyone's fantasy is that one day they will win the National Lottery.live in a fantasy world (=to always be having fantasies): · My son seems to live in a fantasy world sometimes. ► daydream pleasant thoughts you have about something you would like to do, that make you forget where you are and what you are doing: · I began to have daydreams about us being married.· She was sitting at the back of the class, lost in a daydream. ► hallucination something you see that does not really exist, especially something that you see because you are ill or have taken drugs: · I knew that what I had seen was a hallucination, but it was so real and frightening.have hallucinations: · Jamie lost two and a half stone in the next fortnight, couldn't eat and had hallucinations. ► vision an image, especially a religious image, that you can see but which other people cannot: · Bernadette had a vision in which the Virgin Mary appeared before her. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► conversation · If such individuals and such imaginary conversations could provide Mrs Clinton with guidance, she had every right to seek them out. ► line · In simple terms the fleet has to start through an imaginary line usually drawn between a mast and buoy.· Because at impact the club face of his driver was not square to the imaginary line that runs to the target.· Centreline An imaginary line drawn lengthways down the middle of the board.· A maple-leaf flag painted on a mailbox, an imaginary line across the dark stretch of highway.· The particles in the; lattice are joined by imaginary lines called lattice lines.· On day ninety-two we had crossed the imaginary line of 1, 000 miles between us and California.· Cap line an imaginary line across the top of capital letters.· Draw an imaginary line from the centre of eye to under the cheekbone and start there, pushing upwards. ► time · What is the point of introducing the concept of imaginary time?· But the imaginary time direction is at right angles to real time.· However, the beginning in imaginary time will not be a singularity.· But the histories of the particles in imaginary time would continue.· The three space directions and imaginary time would form a space-time that was closed in on itself, without boundaries or edges.· Only if we could picture the universe in terms of imaginary time would there be no singularities.· This means that what happened in imaginary time could be calculated.· And if you know the history of the universe in imaginary time, you can calculate how it behaves in real time. ► world · The individual suspends his critical judgement and involvement in external reality to becoming passively absorbed in an imaginary world. Word family WORD FAMILYadjectiveimaginable ≠ unimaginableimaginaryimaginative ≠ unimaginativeunimaginednounimaginationimaginingsadverbunimaginablyimaginativelyverbimagine not real, but produced from pictures or ideas in your mind → fictional:  As she listened, she played an imaginary piano on her knees. We must protect older people from harm, whether it is real or imaginary.
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