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

• We need more parents willing to play dress-up to encourage the kids to activate their imaginations.
  我们需要更多的父母愿意这样穿着，来鼓励孩子们，激发他们的想像能力。
• Little children have big imaginations.
  小孩子们都有着很强的想像力。
• 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。
• 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。
• They exist in our laboratories and universities; in our fields and our factories; in the imaginations of our entrepreneurs and the pride of the hardest-working people on Earth.
  方法就在我们的实验室和大学里，就在我们的田地和我们的工厂里，就在我们企业家的梦想和地球上最勤恳劳动的人民的自豪感里。
• Look at all of the clothes in this shop! The designers really let their imaginations run wild.
  看看店里所服饰吧！这位设计者真的是尽情了他的想象力。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Children often have vivid imaginations.
  孩子们常常有生动的想象力。