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imagining

/ih-maj-in/US // ɪˈmædʒ ɪn //UK // (ɪˈmædʒɪn) //

想象力,想象,想像力,想像

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
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    im·ag·ined, im·ag·in·ing.

    • : to form a mental image of.
    • : to think, believe, or fancy: He imagined the house was haunted.
    • : to assume; suppose: I imagine they'll be here soon.
    • : to conjecture; guess: I cannot imagine what you mean.
    • : Archaic. to plan, scheme, or plot.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    im·ag·ined, im·ag·in·ing.

    • : to form mental images of things not present to the senses; use the imagination.
    • : to suppose; think; conjecture.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbdream up, conceive

Examples

  • It is difficult to imagine a worse, more undemocratic action by a sitting American President.

  • The full impact of genome editing on human health can hardly be imagined.

  • Who would have imagined that you could buy Airbus at 12 times earnings—a company in a duopoly.

  • They have so much more momentum now than we would have imagined eight months ago.

  • It’s hard to imagine how the Sixers could have done any better.

  • He closed his eyes, imagining the virgins, imagining away the pain in his head and groin.

  • And it might be easiest of all imagining him “exploring” a candidacy for a while and then deciding the hell with it.

  • Imagining novels as biological specimens creates a crazed and mythic zoology of hybrids, beasts, mutants, and aberrations.

  • As a child, he worshipped leaders like Malcolm X and remembers having imagining Africa as a mythical place.

  • A conservative coloring book publisher is out with a new title imagining the tea party heartthrob as a bona fide superhero.

  • I saw the folly of imagining that I could stand a chance against a man like Moeran, and, moreover, he interested me too deeply.

  • Sometimes they were conceived as flaming swords; their forms, indeed, lend themselves to this imagining.

  • Nor is there any substantial ground for imagining that Robert feared any lack of harmony between his two great lieutenants.

  • There has been too much playing of lutes, too much worldly anticipation and imagining among us.

  • He was imagining for Eric a sunny future—a future of splendid usefulness, of reciprocated affection, of brilliant fame.