名词

1. 想象;想象力
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.

2. 想象；空想；幻想
Your imagination is the part of your mind which allows you to form pictures or ideas of things that do not necessarily exist in real life.

3. 吸引…的注意力;摄人魂魄;引人入胜
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.

4. 发人深省;予人启迪
If you say that something stretches your imagination, you mean that it is good because it makes you think about things that you had not thought about before.

5. not by any stretch of the imagination - see stretch

1. the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses

e.g. popular imagination created a world of demons
imagination reveals what the world could be

Synonym: imaginativenessvision

2. the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems

e.g. a man of resource

Synonym: resourceresourcefulness

3. the ability to form mental images of things or events

e.g. he could still hear her in his imagination

Synonym: imagingimagerymental imagery