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viv·id /ˈvɪvɪd/ adjectiveadj

1 REAL/NOT IMAGINARYvivid memories, dreams, descriptions etc are so clear that they seem real 〔记忆、梦境、描述等〕生动的，逼真的，清晰的 OPP vague

I’ve got vivid memories of that summer.

我对那年夏天记忆犹新。

He had a vivid picture of her in his mind.

他的脑海中清晰地留着她的形象。

2. vivid imagination IMAGINEan ability to imagine unlikely situations very clearly 活跃的想象力

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vivid imagination• Although he'd never been blessed with a particularly vivid imagination, Charlie saw it all in an instant.• Her vivid imagination created some one tall and slim, blonde and attractive.• Mark deployed his vivid imagination in a wild-child narrative to create a boy who hunts deer, bears, and birds.• With her vivid imagination, Melissa could visualise the scene and it sickened her.• The Yippies were armed with a vivid imagination to match their rhetoric.• Course Moira always has had a vivid imagination, you have to take what she says with a pinch of salt.

3 Cvivid colours or patterns are very bright 〔色彩、图案〕鲜艳的，鲜明的

his vivid blue eyes

他碧蓝的眼睛

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—vividly adverbadv

n I can vividly remember the day we met.

—vividness noun [uncountableU]

Examples from the Corpus

vivid• The book gives a vivid account of the author's journey through northern Africa.• Include details to make your story as vivid as possible.• The bright exposure of a vivid blue patch alarms the attacker and may save the lizard's life.• a vivid blue sky• I loved listening to his vivid descriptions of life in Italy.• Yet decades earlier, readers had already gotten a vivid fictionalized look at the inner earth from another science-fiction author.• One of my most vivid memories is of my first day at school.• The drug can make people suffer hallucinations and vivid nightmares.• But along the way Alice Thomas Ellis creates an ironic and vivid portrait of London, brilliantly catching its degradation and waste.• a vivid red cape• She could see nothing except a vivid scarlet blur, the colour of a London bus.• Repeat the steps above, trying to make it even more vivid than it was last time.• a cloud of vivid yellow butterflies

Origin vivid

(1600-1700) Latin vividus, from vivere “to live”

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