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

• With the magic of 3D printing capability we are all manufacturers, constrained only by our imaginations.
  有了3D打印机的魔力，人人都是制造商，唯一能限制我们的，就是我们的想象力。
• Children often have vivid imaginations.
  孩子们常常有生动的想象力。
• 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。
• When people enjoyed the sights here, they added in some of their imaginations.
  人们在欣赏美景的同时，加入了自己的想象。
• 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。
• Meanwhile, by reading children's literature, our imaginations can expand without limit.
  同时，透过阅读儿童文学，我们的想像力得以无限扩张。
• When we play computer games, our imaginations are stretched.
  当我们玩电脑游戏时，我们的想象力得到伸展。
• Unlike many other technologies that fed our imaginations and then faded away, the computer has transformed our society.
  不像其他许多技术那样，在满足了我们的想象力之后又逐渐淡出，计算机已经改造了我们的社会。
• 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。
• 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。