| 单词 | imagery |
| 释义 | imagery (once / 1859 pages) n Picture this: imagery is a noun to describe the way things or ideas seem in your mind or in art or literature. Imagery comes from image and originally referred to physical things like statues. Now it is more often used of an artist's or writer's depictions ("Shakespeare's imagery shows a wide knowledge of the world") or of the pictures of the world in someone's mind. Think of imagery as being the stockpile of your imagination. If the imagery in your dreams is a little scary, it might be time to stop eating those spicy meatball sandwiches right before bedtime. WORD FAMILYimagery: imageries+/image: imaged, imagery, images, imaging, imagism/imaging: imagings USAGE EXAMPLESIn these deliberately tarnished tales, such wondrousness mainly shines through in their often beautiful imagery. Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) And how many Hollywood celebrities publicly bemoaned their own insecurities with such striking self-deprecating imagery? Los Angeles Times(Dec 27, 2016) Such apocalyptic imagery may be more likely to become a self‐fulfilling prophecy than to rouse people to action. Slate(Dec 26, 2016) n the ability to form mental images of things or events Syn|Hypo|Hyper imagination, imaging, mental imagery mind's eye the imaging of remembered or invented scenes visiona vivid mental image envisioning, picturingvisual imagery dream, dreaminga series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep chimaera, chimeraa grotesque product of the imagination evocationimaginative re-creation make-believe, pretence, pretenseimaginative intellectual play nightmarea terrifying or deeply upsetting dream previsiona prophetic vision (as in a dream) retrovisiona vision of events in the distant past representational process any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something else |
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