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
Middle English: via Old French from Latin imaginatio(n-), from the verb imaginari 'picture to oneself', from imago, imagin- 'image'