imagination

imagination
noun
  1. the faculty or action of forming new ideas, or images or concepts of external objects not present to the senses
    想像,空想,想像力
    she'd never been blessed with a vivid imagination.
    她从来就无福拥有生动的想像力。
    ■[mass noun]the ability of the mind to be creative or resourceful
    创造力
    technology gives workers the chance to use their imagination.
    科技给了工人运用创造力的机会。
    ■the part of the mind that imagines things
    想像空间
    a girl who existed only in my imagination.
    只存在于我想像中的女孩。
语源
  1. Middle English: via Old French from Latin imaginatio(n-), from the verb imaginari 'picture to oneself', from imago, imagin- 'image'
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