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单词 imaginative
释义
imaginative
(ɪmædʒɪnətɪv )
adjective
If you describe someone or their ideas as imaginative, you are praising them because they are easily able to think of or create new or exciting things. [approval]
...an imaginative writer.
...hundreds of cooking ideas and imaginative recipes.
They should adopt a more imaginative approach.
Synonyms: creative, original, inspired, enterprising  
imaginatively adverb [ADVERB with verb]
The hotel is decorated imaginatively and attractively.
Collocations:
highly imaginative
She keeps to herself and writes poetry and highly imaginative stories.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The result is beautifully written, highly imaginative and engrossing.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Last chance to see this hauntingly evocative and highly imaginative exploration of the scars that war leaves on our landscapes, societies and minds.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
imaginative approach
The union should take a more imaginative approach.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Your imaginative approach can make a long-term relationship feel like new.
The Sun (2013)
A whole extra hour of his subtle and imaginative approach to business.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
For if adult life teaches us anything, it is an imaginative approach to when such relations do and do not count.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
imaginative design
In an imaginative design, a three-deck atrium allows natural light into the elegant dining room which tastefully reflects the first-class nautical heritage of yesteryear.
Times, Sunday Times
In time, with imaginative design, the shared stadium could have become a visitor attraction seven days a week, increasing the prestige of both clubs.
Times, Sunday Times
This would provide scope for re-thinking the position of the proposed visitor centre, and would also allow for a more imaginative design.
Times, Sunday Times
It was only when construction technology caught up that she was able to realise her most imaginative designs.
Times, Sunday Times
In the past, they've made a lamp out of a cricket helmet and turned a snowboard into a shelf and there are some equally imaginative designs on display here.
The Sun
imaginative leap
It is no use hoping that an employer will make an imaginative leap about how your experience is useful.
The Sun (2017)
Thinking for yourself is not only an intellectual exercise - it is an imaginative leap.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
If that is too much of an imaginative leap, try looking across the ocean.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
imaginative literature
Yet he could perceive religious impulses in imaginative literature that did not have patent religious designs.
The Times Literary Supplement
Always having been a voracious reader, he now began reading in philosophy, as he had not done for some years, and also in imaginative literature.
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Authors under the age of 41 are awarded on the quality of their imaginative literature which can be written in either poetry or prose.
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The antagonism was only exacerbated by the publication of defensive editorials which argued that separatism and elitism create the assurances of liberty to foster imaginative literature.
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He also affirmed the respectability and legitimacy of the novel as a genre, arguing that imaginative literature, especially narrative, was more valuable than history or biography.
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imaginative mind
I find not a subtle mind; not an imaginative mind; not a suggestive mind.
The Times Literary Supplement
Superstition and the imaginative mind gained preeminence, along with religious fervor.
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His imaginative mind and inventive knack proved a great help in product creation and design.
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They started his imaginative mind working and gave him ideas by the dozen.
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His imaginative mind and skills allowed him to, on occasion, finish a battle earlier than expected and prepare extra dishes.
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imaginative play
The book should guarantee hours of imaginative play.
Times, Sunday Times
It would be fair to say that most of the imaginative play came from the visiting team.
Times, Sunday Times
Entering into imaginative play, particularly if you're tired or preoccupied with work, can feel really difficult, but it sounds like you're doing a great job.
Times, Sunday Times
So there was a lot of imaginative play.
Times, Sunday Times
It's a healthy part of imaginative play - and of growing up.
The Sun
imaginative power
He had a well-stocked and ready mind, equipped with copious imaginative power.
The Times Literary Supplement
No actors, he felt, could do justice to the overwhelming imaginative power of this play.
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His distinctive style shows technical excellence, imaginative power and emotional range.
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He had both a fine imaginative power and a memory richly stored not only from study but from personal experience.
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He was, doubtless, a misogynist, tainted with the cauterized imaginative powers that that term implies.
The Times Literary Supplement
imaginative solution
That imaginative solution was pension-led funding.
Times, Sunday Times
I thrive on the theatre of the meeting table, imaginative solutions and ultimately, finding agreement.
Times, Sunday Times
However, a number of carmakers have been experimenting with more imaginative solutions.
Times,Sunday Times
We can be sure that the planners are working on imaginative solutions.
Times, Sunday Times
Imaginative solutions to this problem must be found, and fast.
Times, Sunday Times
imaginative space
That may make money but it won't make new imaginative space.
Times, Sunday Times
The best new fairytale novels don't offer an escape, but a separate imaginative space in which protagonists - and perhaps readers - can confront problems and find solutions.
Times, Sunday Times
In a small island we have learnt to make a sort of imaginative space by forming intense relationships with our localities.
Times, Sunday Times
The anthology strives to change your mind about what stories can and should do as they explore the imaginative space between conventional genres.
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Imaginative space also serves an important function within the poem.
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imaginative thinking
It's going to introduce newly bewildered publicsector workers to the delights of 'positive, imaginative thinking'.
Times, Sunday Times
Releasing land for new social housing projects also requires more imaginative thinking, his report recommends.
Times, Sunday Times
Let's see more imaginative thinking to help the unemployed back on their feet.
The Sun
With some imaginative thinking, information technology and modern languages, especially, could become less dry and far more inspiring.
Times, Sunday Times
Lenders, meanwhile, should be applying imaginative thinking as to how they can cater for this priced-out group, while avoiding reckless lending.
Times, Sunday Times
imaginative vision
Not many spaces could house the imaginative vision of fashion's fiercest and most uncompromising couple.
Times, Sunday Times
One character expresses his admiration for the artwork, stories and imaginative vision of the genre.
Times, Sunday Times
But fundamentally this exhibition conjures a striking sense of that individual imaginative vision which transforms a made object into a work of art.
Times, Sunday Times
He showed an imaginative vision of reality that contrasted with what he called the 'glib and shallow rationalism' he knew in his own youth.
Times, Sunday Times
Their different verbal energies, as well as the continuity of their imaginative vision, can be illustrated by tracing the poetic metamorphosis of the sea.
The Times Literary Supplement
imaginative writing
She, at least, encourages us to believe once again in the moral power of good imaginative writing; her people are more than the sum total of their opinions.
The Times Literary Supplement
In all these works, including the title of the book under review, 'poesy' or poetry signifies fiction in general, imaginative writing in verse or prose.
The Times Literary Supplement
Where others have concentrated on records retrieved from official and unofficial dispatches, she scans imaginative writing.
The Times Literary Supplement
I read and re-read them... it was wonderful, imaginative writing.
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She often wrote from her personal experience, though her books also demonstrate strengths in imaginative writing.
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wildly imaginative
Wildly imaginative, and with a music policy that covers ska, punk, disco and techno.
Times, Sunday Times
Science and art, craftsmanship and technology, the wildly imaginative and the intensely rational meet and merge in this moment.
Times, Sunday Times
It's wildly imaginative, deeply meaningful and hugely entertaining.
Times, Sunday Times
A dark and wildly imaginative fantasy, well told and packed with hair-raising twists - and it might even convert nonbelievers to this genre.
Times, Sunday Times
The tale of a poor family comprehensively conning a rich one, it's by turns hilarious, sobering and wildly imaginative.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 富于想像力的
Japanese: 想像力に富んだ
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