imagination

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柯林斯词典

imagination /ɪˌmædʒɪˈneɪʃən/ (imaginations)

1. N-VAR Your imagination is the ability that you have to form pictures or ideas in your mind of things that are new and exciting, or things that you have not experienced. 想像力
Latanya is a woman with a vivid imagination. 拉坦尼娅是一个想像力丰富的女人。
2. N-COUNT Your imagination is the part of your mind that allows you to form pictures or ideas of things that do not necessarily exist in real life. 想像
Long before I ever went there, Africa was alive in my imagination. 早在我去非洲之前，它就栩栩如生地在我的脑海中了。
3. PHRASE If you say that someone or something captured your imagination, you mean that you thought they were interesting or exciting when you saw them or heard them for the first time. 引起某人的兴趣
Their music continues to capture the imagination of the American public. 他们的音乐持续吸引着美国公众的兴趣。
4. not by any stretch of the imagination→see stretch

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剑桥词典

Was it just my imagination or did I hear John's voice in the other room ?
He's one of those people with a very vivid imagination - every time he hears a noise he's convinced it's someone breaking in.
The American drive to land a man on the Moon captured the imagination of the whole world .
Her imagination was kindled by the exciting stories her grandmother told her.
One of poetry's functions is to somehow unlock the imagination.

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