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🔑 im·agin·ationBrE /ɪˌmædʒɪˈneɪʃn/NAmE /ɪˌmædʒɪˈneɪʃn/ noun🔑 [U, C] the ability to create pictures in your mind; the part of your mind that does this 想象力;想象◆a vivid/fertile imagination 生动的/丰富的想象◆He's got no imagination. 他缺乏想象力。◆It doesn't take much imagination to guess what she meant. 不难猜出她的意思。◆I won't tell you his reaction— I'll leave that to your imagination. 我不告诉你他的反应,你自己去想好了。◆Don't let your imagination run away with you (= don't use too much imagination). 不要一味凭空想象。◆The new policies appear to have caught the imagination of the public (= they find them interesting and exciting). 新出台的政策似乎恰恰投合了公众的喜好。◆Nobody hates you—it's all in your imagination. 没人讨厌你,都是你在胡思乱想。◆(informal) Use your imagination! (= used to tell sb that they will have to guess the answer to the question they have asked you, usually because it is obvious or embarrassing) 你自己动动脑筋嘛!🔑 [U] something that you have imagined rather than sth that exists 想象的事物;幻想物◆She was no longer able to distinguish between imagination and reality. 她再也分不清幻想和现实了。◆Is it my imagination or have you lost a lot of weight? 是我的错觉,还是你确实瘦了许多?🔑 [U] the ability to have new and exciting ideas 创造力;创作力◆His writing lacks imagination. 他写的东西缺乏想象。◆With a little imagination, you could turn this place into a palace. 稍微动点脑筋,就能把这个地方变得富丽堂皇。 ●leave nothing/little to the imagiˈnation(of clothes 衣服) to allow more of sb's body to be seen than usual (暴露身体)没有想象的余地◆Her tight-fitting dress left nothing to the imagination. 她的紧身连衣裙令身材显露无遗。●a figment of sb's imagiˈnationsomething that sb has imagined and that does not really exist 凭空想象的事物;臆造的东西;虚构的事●not by any stretch of the imagination●by no stretch of the imaginationused to say strongly that sth is not true, even if you try to imagine or believe it 任凭怎么想也不;再怎么说也不◆She could not, by any stretch of the imagination, be called beautiful. 再怎么说,她也称不上漂亮。 |