单词 | imaginary |
释义 | imaginary (ɪmædʒɪnəri , US -neri ) adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] An imaginary person, place, or thing exists only in your mind or in a story, and not in real life. Lots of children have imaginary friends. ...creating an imaginary world. Synonyms: fictional, made-up, invented, supposed Collocations: imaginary creature When the fearsome imaginary creature makes a surprise appearance, the plucky rodent again uses brain over brawn to avoid a nasty end. The Sun This imaginary creature sometimes did harm to people and other times brought them riches. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Even when a painter creates an imaginary creature, like a mermaid, the composite parts are drawn from real thingswomen and fish, in the case of a mermaid. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There are few recorded sightings over those twenty-five years; she hid like one of her imaginary creatures in the shadowy symbolic spaces of her art. The Times Literary Supplement Adorning the surface of the vessel are three primary decorative animal motifs, including fifteen imaginary creatures cast in relief along the sides. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Real and imaginary enemies were removed. Times,Sunday Times Famously, he spends much of the novel tilting at windmills he believes to be imaginary enemies. Times, Sunday Times The phrase tilting at windmills to describe an act of attacking imaginary enemies derives from an iconic scene in the book. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Be it a household interior or an imaginary landscape, every sort of setting has the same value and becomes a chance to seek new order. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He paints imaginary landscapes in whose beautiful clearings mysterious human lurkers have built evil-looking lairs. Times, Sunday Times A series of imaginary landscapes and abstract paintings conceived by pasteding together sheets or pages of newsprint. Times, Sunday Times I loved to disappear into these imaginary landscapes. Times, Sunday Times These imaginary landscapes bewildered contemporary critics. The Times Literary Supplement You can do this along the line of the actual boundary and upwards in an imaginary line an unlimited distance into the air. Times, Sunday Times Imagine there's an imaginary line that you're hopping over. The Sun He takes his stance and then stands for 40 uncomfortable seconds, lost in concentration, silently drawing with his eyes an imaginary line between the ball and the posts. Times,Sunday Times In a spectrum, the leader draws an imaginary line and designates one end of the room to represent one extreme viewpoint, and the other end an opposite extreme viewpoint. Christianity Today Clearly some work needs to be done to help referees police the imaginary line between the armpits. Times, Sunday Times It created an imaginary scenario. Times, Sunday Times These aren't imaginary scenarios or simple illustrations. Christianity Today Examples include the tendencies to harbor bitterness, ruminate about imaginary scenarios, and panic about remote threats to safety. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He gives her a cabinet house as a wedding gift, but here, we presume, the imaginary world takes flight. Times, Sunday Times I wanted to give this almost imaginary world of love a realistic context. ST If they disappear, so will a shared place to escape into the imaginary world of rock and pop dreams. Times, Sunday Times So no risk for them, but what about the small fry like myself (in my imaginary world)? Times, Sunday Times I think of it as a broad term, one that includes any imaginary world or society in which you wouldn't want to live. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 假想的 Japanese: 想像の |
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