| 单词 | imagine |
| 释义 | imagine (once / 39 pages) v To imagine something is to picture it in your head. When we imagine things, we're using our imagination. The word image is a good clue to the meaning of imagine, a word for picturing or envisioning things. You could imagine you're a king, an astronaut, a firefighter, or a coyote. You could imagine the earth getting hit by an asteroid. If you can think of it, you can imagine it. Sometimes, imagining means believing or guessing. For example, your teacher could say, "Did you really imagine there would be no homework?" WORD FAMILYimagine: imaginable, imagination, imaginative, imagined, imagining+/imaginable: imaginably, unimaginable/imagination: imaginations/imaginative: imaginatively, imaginativeness, unimaginative/unimaginable: unimaginably/unimaginative: unimaginatively USAGE EXAMPLESLincoln never imagined the war would continue for four terrible years. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) A: No. I never imagined anyone would care all these years later. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) It’s easy to imagine that she’s walking into the murky depths, never to return. The New Yorker(Jan 02, 2017) 1v expect, believe, or suppose I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel Syn|Hypo|Hyper guess, opine, reckon, suppose, think suspect hold in suspicion; believe to be guilty anticipate, expect regard something as probable or likely 2v form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case Syn|Hypo|Hyper conceive of, envisage, ideate envision, fancy, figure, image, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind visualise, visualizeform a mental picture of something that is invisible or abstract envision, foreseepicture to oneself; imagine possible fantasise, fantasizeportray in the mind prefigureimagine or consider beforehand thinkimagine or visualize fantasise, fantasize, fantasyindulge in fantasies daydream, dream, stargaze, woolgatherhave a daydream; indulge in a fantasy create by mental act, create mentally create mentally and abstractly rather than with one's hands |
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