0 to form or have a mental picture or idea of something:
Imagine Robert Redford when he was young - that's what John looks like.
[ + (that) ] Imagine (that) you're eating ice cream - try to feel how cold it is.
[ + question word ] Can you imagine how it feels to be blind?
[ + -ing verb ] She imagined herself sitting in her favourite chair back home.
They hadn't imagined (= expected) (that) it would be so difficult.
I can't imagine (= I really don't know) what he wants from us.
[ + (that) ] I imagine (that) he's under a lot of pressure at the moment.
I don't imagine (that) they have much money.
"Will they change it?" "I imagine so."
"Did you hear a noise?" "No, you're imagining things/No, you must have imagined it."
I've never heard her criticize you - I think you imagine it.
She got married at 16! Imagine that!
[ + -ing verb ] Imagine spending all that money on a coat!
You can't imagine what a mess the house was in after the party.
1 to form or have a mental picture or idea of something or someone:
Spending Christmas with him and his brother - I can't imagine anything worse!
Try to imagine what life must have been like for Neolithic man 10 000 years ago.
You can't imagine what it would be like to have your child die - it's quite unthinkable.
He has the most awful taste so you can probably imagine what his house looks like.
In contrast to the classical norm, they become more than they had imagined.
Slavery is here imagined as occurring within the mind, as lack of independence from a particular idea or way of thinking.
As we have seen, an objection that quickly comes to mind is that we have little trouble imagining worlds better than ours.
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想像, 設想, 猜想,猜測…
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imaginar(se), imaginar, suponer…
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~を思い描く, (~だと)を想像してみる, ~を思い違いする…
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