"faculty of the mind which forms and manipulates images," mid-14c., ymaginacion, from Old French imaginacion "concept, mental picture; hallucination," from Latin imaginationem (nominative imaginatio) "imagination, a fancy," noun of action from past participle stem of imaginari (see imagine).
权威例句
1. A child may not differentiate between his imagination and the real world.
儿童可能无法将自己的幻想与真实世界区分开来。
2. A conservatory offers the perfect excuse to let your imagination run riot.
音乐学院让你有充分的理由任想象力自由驰骋。
3. These poems have helped kindle the imagination of generations of children.
这些诗激发了一代又一代孩子的想象力。
4. Powell let his libidinous imagination run away with him.
鲍威尔淫心顿起,浮想联翩。
5. Long before I ever went there, Africa was alive in my imagination.