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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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