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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
想象力極豐富的講故事者
It does not take much imagination to understand their grief.
不難想象他們是多麽悲傷。
With a little imagination, you can find great inexpensive gifts.
稍微動點腦筋，你就會找到物美價廉的禮物。
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?
你聽到那個聲音了嗎？ 還是那是我的幻覺？
These people do exist; they’re not figments of my imagination.
這些人確實存在，他們不是我憑空想象出來的。
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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[發生]於某人的想象之中
For the refugees, home exists only in their imagination.
對於這些難民來說，家只存在於他們的想象之中。
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.
美式橄欖球確實使英國民衆着迷。
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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 將某事留給某人自己去想象〔因認爲某人能夠猜出或想象到〕
Mercifully, the writer leaves most of the physical horrors to our imagination.
幸而作者把大部分有形的恐懼留給我們自己去想象。
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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 沒有想象的餘地〔指又薄又貼身的衣服令身材顯露無遺〕
Her black satin dress left nothing to the imagination.
她的黑色緞子連衣裙令身段顯露無遺。
b) if something sexual or violent is described in a way that leaves nothing to the imagination, it is described in too much detail 〔對性愛或暴力事件的描述〕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 動動腦筋
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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 豐富的想象力
She's a lively child, with a good imagination.
她是個活潑的孩子，想象力很豐富。
great imagination 傑出的想象力
His paintings show great imagination.
他的畫作展現出非凡的想象力。
a vivid/fertile imagination (=an ability to think of a lot of ideas and things that could happen) 生動的/豐富的想象力
She had a fertile imagination and a great sense of humour.
她想象力豐富並且很有幽默感。
nWith your vivid imagination, you should write a book.
an overactive/fevered imagination (=a mind that imagines strange things that are not real) 過於豐富的想象力
These stories are the product of an overactive imagination.
這些故事都是想象力過於豐富的結果。
the public imagination 公衆的興趣
The story captured the public imagination.
這篇報道引起了公衆的興趣。
creative imagination 創造性想象
I don't have the creative imagination to be a writer.
我缺乏富於創造性的想象力，成不了作家。
verbs
have (an) imagination 有想象力
Her poems show that she has a lot of imagination.
她的詩作表明她有豐富的想象力。
use your imagination 發揮想象力
Musicians need to use their imagination as well as their technical skills.
音樂家既要運用技巧又要發揮想象力。
show/display imagination 展現想象力
His latest paintings display a vivid imagination.
他最新的畫作展現了生動的想象力。
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) 激發某人的想象力
nThe aim of the exhibition is to stimulate people's imagination.
phrases
be full of imagination 充滿想象力
Her stories are full of imagination.
她的故事充滿了想象力。
a lack of imagination 缺乏想象力
Their policies show a lack of imagination.
他們的政策顯露出想象力的匮乏。
let your imagination run wild (also let your imagination run riot British EnglishBrE) (=allow yourself to imagine many strange or wonderful things) 讓想象力盡情發揮[自由馳騁]
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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