Imagination
[ɪ,mædʒɪ'neɪʃ(ə)n] or [ɪ,mædʒɪ'neʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses; 'popular imagination created a world of demons'; 'imagination reveals what the world could be'.
(noun.) the ability to form mental images of things or events; 'he could still hear her in his imagination'.
編輯:蒂姆--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The imagine-making power of the mind; the power to create or reproduce ideally an object of sense previously perceived; the power to call up mental imagines.
(n.) The representative power; the power to reconstruct or recombine the materials furnished by direct apprehension; the complex faculty usually termed the plastic or creative power; the fancy.
(n.) The power to recombine the materials furnished by experience or memory, for the accomplishment of an elevated purpose; the power of conceiving and expressing the ideal.
(n.) A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; a conception; a notion.
克利奥校對
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Conception (united with the faculty of recombining ideas so as to form a new creation), invention, ideality, FANCY, creative power, plastic power.
手打:诺娜
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. A warehouse of facts with poet and liar in joint ownership.
欧文錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- Imagination,' said the gentleman, soothing her. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- The poor bent, enfeebled creature struck his imagination. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- No,' said the old gentleman, shaking his head; 'it must be imagination. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Such an imagination has crossed me, I own, Emma; and if it never occurred to you before, you may as well take it into consideration now. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- He was the hero of her imagination, the image carved by love in the unchanged texture of her heart. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Whatever is absurd is unintelligible; nor is it possible for the imagination to conceive any thing contrary to a demonstration. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- After the fall of Carthage the Roman imagination went wild with the hitherto unknown possibilities of finance. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The ordinary course of action fails to give adequate stimulus to emotion and imagination. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- He could not see Miaja on a bicycle even in his most patriotic imagination, but Karkov said it was true. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Perdita, wedded to an imagination, careless of what is behind the veil, whose charactery is in truth faulty and vile, Perdita has renounced me. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Was it only ten years since she had wavered in imagination between the English earl and the Italian prince? 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- If a person be my brother I am his likewise: but though the relations be reciprocal they have very different effects on the imagination. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Her delicate organization and creative imagination rendered her peculiarly susceptible of pleasurable emotion. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Whatever is extended consists of parts; and whatever consists of parts is divisible, if not in reality, at least in the imagination. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- She tried herself in imagination with her Aunt Shaw and Edith; with her father; with Captain and Mr. Lennox; with Frederick. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- If she were sickly she would have her illusions, imaginations. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- How cheerful, how animated, how suspicious, how busy their imaginations all are! 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- The effect of this battle upon people's imaginations was very great. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The world was to me a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Two imaginations soared together upon the raft at Tilsit. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Our geographical isolation preserves us from any vivid sense of national contrast: our imaginations are not stirred by different civilizations. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- It spread rather in spite of than because of the concessions that it made to vulgar imaginations. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The case demanded was one in which you could see representative American citizens trying to handle a problem which had touched their imaginations. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The temples had accumulated great stores of golden vessels and lost their hold upon the imaginations of men. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He seemed a galvanizing apparatus, too, charged with a grim mechanical substitute for the tender young imaginations that were to be stormed away. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- This source of property can never be explained but from the imaginations; and one may affirm, that the causes are here unmixed. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Their imaginations declined the task. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Trouble no quiet, kind heart; leave sunny imaginations hope. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Under the overpowering influence of these sickly imaginations the moral teachings of Gautama have been almost hid from view. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In their imaginations a great and rich city to the south, a sort of confusion of Rome and Byzantium, loomed large. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
整理:莎丽