| 单词 | imagination |
| 释义 | imag·i·na·tion 1. < our simple apprehension of corporeal objects, if present, is sense; if absent, is imagination — Joseph Glanvill > 2. a. < the great imaginations of literature > b. < the attempt shows suggestions of the imagination that the situation demands > 3. obsolete < all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me — Lam 3:60 (Authorized Version) > 4. a. b. < the gory imaginations of folk poetry > c. < idle imaginations > 5. < the Magna Charta … has operated in the meaning given it in imagination rather than by its literal contents — John Dewey > Synonyms: < all youth lives much in reverie; thereby the stronger minds anticipate and rehearse themselves for life in a thousand imaginations — H.G.Wells > < imagination being little else than another name for illusion — Samuel Butler > < the imagination is able to manipulate nature as by creating three legs and five arms but it is not able to create a totally new nature — Wallace Stevens > < the production of vivid images, usually visual images … is the commonest and the least interesting thing which is referred to by imagination — I.A.Richards > < a product of fancy rather than imagination — if one accepts fancy as decorative and imagination as creative — Pamela L. Travers > < imagination, in his opinion, gets at relationships that are true at the deepest level of experience — F.A.Pottle > < imagination is something akin to what it was in Wordsworth, a means of deepest insight and sympathy — Roy Pascal > < it is only through imagination that men become aware of what the world might be — Bertrand Russell > fancy now usually suggests the power to conceive and give expression to images of things removed from reality, usually of things purely, sometimes frivolously though often delightfully, imaginary, often contrasting with imagination in suggesting a more superficial often factitious power of inventing the novel or unreal by recombining existing elements as opposed to the imagination's gift of grasping a deeper, more organic reality < like all weak men of a vivid fancy, he was constantly framing dramas of which he was the towering lord — G.D.Brown > < the associative faculty performs, to a varying extent in individual cases, constantly shifting arrangements and rearrangements of the data of observation, thought, feeling … which Coleridge distinguishes from imagination by the word fancy — George Whalley > < in a creative artist the imagination functions … in three ways. It is partly mere fancy, which moves happily into make-believe — K.P.Kempton > fantasy or phantasy suggests the power of unrestrained, often extravagant or delusive, fancy, stressing the unreal more than fancy; phantasy is used more frequently than fantasy in the technical sense of image-making power in general < hard to say where the actuality ends and the fantasy begins in these sketches of life — B.C.L.Keelan > < fairy stories and fantasy are phenomenally popular — Lavinia R. Davis > < an appealing fantasy, though its appeal does not lie in what is fantastic about it. It lies in what is realistic and homely — Time > < a fantasy … may be distinguished from the representation of something that actually exists, but it is not opposed to “reality” and not an “escape” from reality. Thus, the idea of a rational society, or the image of a good house to be built, or the story of something that never happened, is a fantasy — Lionel Trilling > < this mechanical man or robot idea has been decidedly overdone in the writings of fantasy — C.C.Furnas > < a mixture … of comic phantasy, improbable adventure and rainbow colors — G.E.Fox > < a novelist is a person who has a highly developed gift of phantasy — Bernard De Voto > < its invention is based on the extinction of a wish phantasy belonging to the period of puberty — D.F.Tait > |
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