0 the ability to form pictures in the mind -- 想像力
My younger son has a very vivid (= active) imagination. 我的小兒子想像力很豐富。
I can never make up stories - I have absolutely no imagination. 我從來都不會編故事——我根本沒甚麼想像力。
For some reason the story captured/caught the imagination of the public (= made them very interested). 由於某種原因,這件事引起了公眾的關注。
It couldn't by any stretch of the imagination be described as a (= it is certainly not a) beautiful city. 這座城市再怎麼說也稱不上漂亮。
There's a sex scene in the film which apparently leaves nothing to the imagination (= shows sexual parts of the body very clearly). 這部電影中有一個十分露骨的性愛場面,沒有留下任何想像的餘地。
Was she paying him a lot of attention or was it just my imagination? 她是特別注意他呢,還是這一切只是我的臆想?
Is it my imagination or is David behaving strangely at the moment? 是我的錯覺呢,還是大衛現在真的是行為古怪?
It's a job that needs someone with a bit of imagination. 做這項工作需要有一點創造力。
Was it just my imagination or did I hear John's voice in the other room?
He's one of those people with a very vivid imagination - every time he hears a noise he's convinced it's someone breaking in.
The American drive to land a man on the Moon captured the imagination of the whole world.
Her imagination was kindled by the exciting stories her grandmother told her.
One of poetry's functions is to somehow unlock the imagination.
His research focuses on the architectural imagination in technical drawing.
The abstraction by our imagination means we earn the approbation (or disapprobation) from those unlike as well as those like us.
Music offers the opportunity for every child to move on from where they are, in skills, understanding and imagination.