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imagination

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i·ma·gi·na·tion /ɪˌmædʒəˈneɪʃən/ ●●● S3 W3 noun  
1  [countableC, uncountableU]IMAGINE the ability to form pictures or ideas in your mind 想象力
 a storyteller with an incredible imagination
想象力极丰富的讲故事者
 It does not take much imagination to understand their grief.
不难想象他们是多么悲伤。
 With a little imagination, you can find great inexpensive gifts.
稍微动点脑筋，你就会找到物美价廉的礼物。
2  be (a figment of) somebody’s imagination IMAGINEto be something that someone imagines, not something that really exists or happens 是某人的幻想[幻象]
 Did you hear that noise, or was it my imagination?
你听到那个声音了吗？ 还是那是我的幻觉？
 These people do exist; they’re not figments of my imagination.
这些人确实存在，他们不是我凭空想象出来的。
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be (a figment of) somebody’s imagination• Puny appeared thoughtful, or was it his imagination?• Was it his imagination, or could he really feel the beginnings of a headache?• The real limit to whatever ingenious notions and ideas we may develop is our own imagination.• No, it was just my imagination running riot.• Yet it was not all imagination.• All that is left to connect us to the past is the imagination.• My subject was landscape and imagination.• Thoughts are things; imagination is experience.
3  in somebody’s imagination IMAGINEonly existing or happening in someone’s mind, not in real life 只存在[发生]于某人的想象之中
 For the refugees, home exists only in their imagination.
对于这些难民来说，家只存在于他们的想象之中。
4  capture/catch somebody’s imagination INTERESTEDto make people feel very interested and excited 使某人出神，使某人入迷
 American football really captured the imagination of the British public.
美式橄榄球确实使英国民众着迷。
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capture/catch somebody’s imagination• The story of a boy raised by monkeys has caught the imagination of millions.
5  leave something to somebody’s imagination DESCRIBEto deliberately not describe something because you think someone can guess or imagine it 将某事留给某人自己去想象〔因认为某人能够猜出或想象到〕
 Mercifully, the writer leaves most of the physical horrors to our imagination.
幸而作者把大部分有形的恐惧留给我们自己去想象。
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leave something to somebody’s imagination• There's nothing wrong with being glamorous and sexy, but leaving something to the imagination is advisable.• His creation left nothing to the imagination.• The Crims leave it to your imagination, although they don't on the incongruous rockabilly thumper Dickholder.• Plastics - that here leave little to the imagination - were widely used in fashion.• In this respect Wordsworth does not leave enough to the imagination.• The production successfully leaves much of the detail to the audience's imagination.• That way they leave things to your imagination.
6  leave little/nothing to the imagination 
a) if someone’s clothes leave little or nothing to the imagination, the clothes are very thin or are worn in a way that shows the person’s body 没有想象的余地〔指又薄又贴身的衣服令身材显露无遗〕
 Her black satin dress left nothing to the imagination.
她的黑色缎子连衣裙令身段显露无遗。
b) if something sexual or violent is described in a way that leaves nothing to the imagination, it is described in too much detail 〔对性爱或暴力事件的描述〕很露骨
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leave little/nothing to the imagination• His creation left nothing to the imagination.• Plastics - that here leave little to the imagination - were widely used in fashion.
7. use your imagination spokenGUESS used to tell someone that they can easily guess the answer to a question, so you should not need to tell them 动动脑筋
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use your imagination• Of course, Vincent explained to Theo, he could avoid the expense of models and use his imagination.• This means using your imagination and buying some fairly unusual items.• We also need to encourage children to use their imaginations in science lessons.• When the information was slow in coming, the announcers were forced to use their imaginations to fill in the details.• This would be a well-placed lesson to her in how to use her imagination a bit more.• With Game Boys and other computers you don't need to use your imagination.• How can you look at a bunch of stars, so far away, and so incomprehensible, without using your imagination?
→ not by any stretch of the imagination at stretch2(4)
 COLLOCATIONS
adjectives
a good imagination 丰富的想象力
She's a lively child, with a good imagination.
她是个活泼的孩子，想象力很丰富。
great imagination 杰出的想象力
His paintings show great imagination.
他的画作展现出非凡的想象力。
a vivid/fertile imagination (=an ability to think of a lot of ideas and things that could happen) 生动的/丰富的想象力
She had a fertile imagination and a great sense of humour.
她想象力丰富并且很有幽默感。
nWith your vivid imagination, you should write a book.
an overactive/fevered imagination (=a mind that imagines strange things that are not real) 过于丰富的想象力
These stories are the product of an overactive imagination.
这些故事都是想象力过于丰富的结果。
the public imagination 公众的兴趣
The story captured the public imagination.
这篇报道引起了公众的兴趣。
creative imagination 创造性想象
I don't have the creative imagination to be a writer.
我缺乏富于创造性的想象力，成不了作家。
verbs
have (an) imagination 有想象力
Her poems show that she has a lot of imagination.
她的诗作表明她有丰富的想象力。
use your imagination 发挥想象力
Musicians need to use their imagination as well as their technical skills.
音乐家既要运用技巧又要发挥想象力。
show/display imagination 展现想象力
His latest paintings display a vivid imagination.
他最新的画作展现了生动的想象力。
lack imagination 缺乏想象力
nA lot of today's pop music seems to lack imagination.
fire/stimulate somebody's imagination (=make someone use their imagination) 激发某人的想象力
nThe aim of the exhibition is to stimulate people's imagination.
phrases
be full of imagination 充满想象力
Her stories are full of imagination.
她的故事充满了想象力。
a lack of imagination 缺乏想象力
Their policies show a lack of imagination.
他们的政策显露出想象力的匮乏。
let your imagination run wild (also let your imagination run riot British EnglishBrE) (=allow yourself to imagine many strange or wonderful things) 让想象力尽情发挥[自由驰骋]
nHe uses painting as a way of letting his imagination run riot.
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imagination• Each of these views is part of or generated a coherent system, but they are systems fed by imagination.• Shakespeare has the most fertile imagination of all the poets.• Debbie has a very good imagination.• This would be a well-placed lesson to her in how to use her imagination a bit more.• These things belonged to the past moments in which he first envisioned them, images in photographs he took in his imagination.• Dressed in tweeds and constantly pipe smoking, his imagination often ran away with him.• The gymslip Lolita is not entirely a figment of the male imagination.• That this may not be the case in certain instances does not take much imagination to comprehend.• In my imagination and nightmares I have done time in an iron lung.• Maybe it was just my imagination, but he seemed really hostile.• Reading is a good way to develop a child's imagination at an early age.• Jack's vivid imagination often gave him bad dreams.• There's no-one knocking at the door - it must have been your imagination.• I don't have a photograph with me so you'll have to use your imagination.
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BNC: 2828 COCA: 2892
imagination

noun

ADJECTIVE | VERB + IMAGINATION | IMAGINATION + VERB | PREPOSITION | PHRASES ADJECTIVE➤great偉大的想像力▸➤active, creative, fertile, lively, rich, strong, vivid活躍的想像；有創意的想像；豐富的想像力；生動的想像▸➤fevered, overactive, overheated, wild狂熱的／過度活躍的／過激的／天馬行空的想像◇It's just a product of your fevered imagination!那只是你狂熱想像的產物！➤limited有限的想像力◇a movie of such limited imagination一部想像力有限的電影➤collective, popular, public集體的／普遍的／公眾的想像◇a popular hero who inspired the collective imagination激發了集體想像力的大眾英雄➤visual視覺想像◇I was no good at art－I have a very poor visual imagination.我對藝術一無所長 － 我的視覺想像力很差。➤artistic, cultural, historical, literary, musical, poetic, political, romantic藝術想像；文化想像；歷史想像；文學想像力；音樂想像力；詩歌想像力；政治想像；浪漫的想像◇It requires a strong effort of historical imagination to understand the Roman attitude to death.要理解古羅馬人對死亡的態度需要非常努力地去發揮一番歷史想像力。➤moral, religious道德／宗教想像◇an education that stimulates the moral imagination激發道德想像的教育➤human人類的想像◇the powers of the human imagination人類想像的力量➤pure純粹的想像VERB + IMAGINATION➤have有想像力▸➤show展示想像力▸➤lack缺乏想像力◇Today's music lacks imagination.當今的音樂缺乏想像力。➤require, take需要想像力；頗費想像◇It does not take great imagination to guess what happened next.隨後發生的事情不難想像。➤use發揮想像力◇I don't have a picture of this, so you'll just have to use your imagination.這個我沒有照片，所以你得發揮自己的想像了。➤captivate, capture, catch, excite, feed, fire, fuel, grab, ignite, inspire, seize, spark, stimulate, stir引發想像；激發想像；喚起想像◇19th-century writers fired the popular imagination with their tales of adventure.19 世紀的作家用冒險故事激發了大眾的想像力。➤engage, grip吸引住／抓住想像力➤haunt不斷喚起想像◇The film haunted the imaginations of viewers.那部影片讓觀眾浮想聯翩。➤exercise, stretch運用／展開想像力▸➤defy無法想像◇The scale of the disaster defied imagination (= was greater than you could imagine).災難的規模超乎人們的想像。➤leave sth to留下⋯引人想像◇As for their reaction, I'll leave that to your imagination!至於他們的反應，我就留給你們自己去想像吧！IMAGINATION + VERB➤conjure sth up想像出⋯◇His imagination conjured up a vision of the normal family life he had never had.他腦海裏勾畫出一幅他從未體驗過的普通家庭生活的場景。➤play tricks on you, run away with you, run riot, run wild, work想像欺騙⋯；想像力自由馳騁；想像力發揮作用◇Was it only her imagination playing tricks on her?真的只是她的想像在作怪嗎？PREPOSITION➤beyond (your) imagination超乎想像◇misery that is beyond most people's imagination超乎絕大多數人想像的痛苦➤in the/your imagination幻想◇Nobody hates you－it's all in your imagination!沒人討厭你 － 都是你自己胡思亂想！➤with imagination, without imagination有想像力；沒有想像力◇He was totally without imagination.他毫無想像力。PHRASES➤a lack of imagination缺乏想像力▸➤a figment of sb's imagination, a product of sb's imagination某人臆想之物；某人想像的結果◇The figure vanished as silently as if it had simply been a figment of her imagination.那個人影無聲無息地消失了，彷彿一切只是她的憑空想像。➤by no stretch of the imagination, not by any stretch of the imagination任憑怎麼想也不◇Not by any stretch of the imagination could she be called beautiful (= she was definitely not beautiful in any way).再怎麼說她也稱不上漂亮。➤with a little imagination稍微用點兒想像力◇With a little imagination you can create a delicious meal from yesterday's leftovers.只要稍動一下腦筋，你就可以把昨天的剩飯剩菜變成美味佳肴。➤a hold on the/sb's imagination引人想像的事物◇The Pyramids retain a remarkable hold on the human imagination.金字塔一直保持着引發人類想像的巨大魅力。
BNC: 2828 COCA: 2892
imagination noun
⇨ imagination (a vivid imagination) ⇨ inspiration (lack imagination)imagination

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imagination ♦︎ vision ♦︎ fantasy ♦︎ make-believeThese are all words for the act of creating pictures in your mind, or the pictures created in this way. 这些词均表示想象、幻想或想象的事物。PATTERNS AND COLLOCATIONS 句型和搭配◆(a) romantic imagination / vision / fantasy◆(a) private / personal vision / fantasy◆a world of fantasy / make-believe■ imagination [uncountable, countable] the ability to create pictures in your mind; the part of your mind that does this; something that you have imagined rather than sth that exists 想象力；想象；想象的事物；幻想物◆He's got no imagination.他缺乏想象力。◆It doesn't take much imagination to guess what happened next.不难猜出接下来发生了什么事。◆She has a vivid imagination.她想象力丰富。◆I won't tell you his reaction－I'll leave that to your imagination.我就不告诉你他的反应了，你自己去想好了。◆Nobody hates you－it's all in your imagination.没人讨厌你，都是你在胡思乱想。◆Is it my imagination or have you lost a lot of weight?究竟是我有错觉，还是你确实瘦了很多？  see also imaginative ⇨ creative ■ vision [countable] an idea or picture in your imagination 想象；幻想◆He had a vision of a world in which there would be no wars.他幻想一个没有战争的世界。◆I had visions of us getting hopelessly lost.我以为我们彻底迷失方向了。■ fantasy ˈfæntəsi [uncountable] (sometimes disapproving) the act of imagining things; a person's imagination 幻想；想象◆This is a work of fantasy.这是部幻想作品。◆She was no longer able to distinguish between fantasy and reality.她再也无法区分幻想和现实了。◆Stop living in a fantasy world.别再生活在幻想世界中了。 OPP reality ⇨ fact   see also fantasy ⇨ hope noun 2 NOTE 辨析 Imagination or fantasy? Imagination is usually a more approving term than fantasy. Having a vivid imagination is often thought to be a good thing as it enables people to enjoy themselves and to sympathize more with other people by imagining what it is like to be them. Fantasy is usually used to contrast imagined things with the real world, often in a negative way, suggesting that sb is unwilling or unable to face reality. * imagination含义通常比fantasy更正面。拥有vivid imagination（丰富的想象力）常被视为好事，因为它能使人得到乐趣，也能使人对他人的处境感同身受。fantasy通常用以对比虚构的事物与真实的世界，这种对比常常带有贬义，暗示怀抱幻想者不愿或无法面对现实。■ ˈmake-believe [uncountable] (sometimes disapproving) imagining or pretending that things are different or more exciting than they really are; imagining that sth is real, or that you are sb else, for example in a child's game 虚构；想象；（儿童游戏等中的）假扮，假装◆They live in a world of make-believe.他们生活在虚幻的世界里。◆'Let's play make-believe,' said Sam.萨姆说：“咱们来玩过家家吧。”
BNC: 2828 COCA: 2892
imagination
Intelligence, intuition and ability to understand: intelligence, intuition, intellect...
Imagination and imagining: imagination, creativity, imaginings...
Feelings of pleasure and excitement: pleasure, excitement, enthusiasm...

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