imaginations

英 [ɪˌmædʒɪˈneɪʃənz]

美 [ɪˌmædʒəˈneɪʃənz]

n.  想象力; 想象; 想象的事物; 幻想物; 创造力; 创作力
imagination的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 想象;想象力
  Yourimaginationis 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.
  1. Antonia is a woman with a vivid imagination...
     安东尼娅是个想象力丰富的女人。
  2. Alistair had a logical mind, and little imagination...
     阿利斯泰尔逻辑思维能力很强,但缺乏想象力。
  3. The Government approach displays a lack of imagination.
     政府的方案显得缺乏想象力。
• N-COUNT 想象；空想；幻想
  Yourimaginationis the part of your mind which allows you to form pictures or ideas of things that do not necessarily exist in real life.
  1. Long before I ever went there, Africa was alive in my imagination.
     早在我真正踏足之前很久,非洲就已在我的脑海中活灵活现了。
• PHRASE 吸引…的注意力;摄人魂魄;引人入胜
  If you say that someone or somethingcapturedyourimagination, you mean that you thought they were interesting or exciting when you saw them or heard them for the first time.
  1. Italian football captured the imagination of the nation last season.
     上个赛季意大利足球吸引了全国上下的注意。
• PHRASE 发人深省;予人启迪
  If you say that somethingstretchesyourimagination, you mean that it is good because it makes you think about things that you had not thought about before.
  1. Their films are exciting and really stretch the imagination.
     他们的电影非常精彩且发人深省。
• notby any stretch of the imagination→ see:stretch

双语例句

• Children often have vivid imaginations.
  孩子们常常有生动的想象力。
• The ways in which this framework can be used are limited only by our imaginations.
  按照这种想法，制约该框架的只会是我们的想像力。
• Brotherhood and peace are created in the thoughts and wills and imaginations of men by the Spirit of God, and only new men can make a new world.
  同胞关系与和平是人们藉上帝的精神在他们的思想和意志以及想象中创造出来的，只有新人类能创造一个新世界。
• If the accumulation of false imaginations is cleared away, enlightenment will appear.
  如果累积的虚假想象被清除，开悟就会出现。
• Artists have always used public events as raw material, have taken history into their imaginations and transformed it.
  艺术家一向都采用公共事件做原始素材，把历史纳入想象中加以改造。
• Here are some of their imaginations.
  下面是一些他们的想象。
• Their imaginations were fed by exile, nourishment drawn not through roots, but through rootlessness.
  离乡背井激发了他们的想象力，养分的吸取并非通过根部，而是通过其无根性。
• Have purposes and imaginations for your future. A real woman should live and fight for herself.
  要有自己对未来的设想和目标，女人要为自己而活为自己而奋斗。
• If you wonder why it's taken so long, I can only answer that it's taken this long for movie magic to catch up to the imaginations of the storytellers.
  如果你觉得这之间花了这么长的时间奇怪，我只能回答，电影技术花了这么长的时间才赶上了讲故事人的想象力。
• The apparent perfection of plants and animals may be more a reflection of our poor imaginations than of reality.
  貌似完美的各种动植物可能倒是人类想象力比真实事物更可怜的反映。