| 词组 | imagine |
| 释义 | imagine /ɪˈmædʒən, ɪˈmædʒɪn/ verb to form a picture or idea in your mind about what something could be likeverbscan/can’t imagine Joe couldn’t imagine life without his wife.adverbscan easily imagine also can well imagine I can easily imagine how frightening the accident must have been. | I can well imagine how delighted you were with the news.can hardly/scarcely imagine (=find it difficult to imagine) She could scarcely imagine what living in such conditions would be like.naively imagine (=imagine that something is true, without realizing how complicated or bad a situation is) She naively imagined that marriage would solve all her problems.fondly imagine (=believe something because you want it to be true, when it is not true) He had fondly imagined that she was in love with him.phrasessth is difficult/hard to imagine It is difficult to imagine being in a prison – it must be horrible. | It’s hard to imagine the suffering she must have gone through.sth is easy to imagine It was easy to imagine his father’s reaction.be bigger/smaller/worse etc than sb imagined The interview was much worse than I had imagined.be what/how sb imagined (=be what or how you thought something would be like) The job was not what he imagined. | The house was exactly what I had imagined.sb is imagining things (=they think something is true when it is not true) Am I imagining things or did I see you in town earlier?let us imagine… (=used to encourage someone to think about a possibility) Let’s imagine you could do any job in the world – what would you do?GrammarImagine is often used with yourself/himself etc, when you are imagining that you are in a particular situation: She imagined herself lying on a beach in Florida.THESAURUS: imagine visualize also visualise BrE to form a picture of someone or something in your mind, especially something that is definitely going to happen or exist in the future: Anna visualized meeting Greg again at the airport. | The finished house may be hard to visualize. picture to form a clear picture of something or someone in your mind: I can still picture my father, even though he died a long time ago. | The town was just how she had pictured it from his description. envisage /ɪnˈvɪzɪdʒ/ especially BrE envision to imagine something as possible or likely to happen in the future: How do you envisage your career developing over the next ten years? | They had envisioned the creation of a single armed force, small but efficient. conceive of sth formal to imagine a situation, especially one that is difficult to imagine: For many people, music is so important that they cannot conceive of life without it. fantasize to imagine something exciting that you would like to happen, but that is very unlikely to happen: I used to fantasize about becoming a film star. daydream to imagine pleasant things, so that you forget where you are and what you should be doing: For a minute I thought I was back in Japan, and then I realised that I was only daydreaming. | Stop daydreaming and get on with your work! | Mark began to daydream, and didn’t even hear the teacher’s question. hallucinate to imagine that you are seeing things that are not really there, especially because you are ill or have taken drugs: The drug can cause some people to hallucinate. | When I saw the walls moving, I thought I must be hallucinating. |
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