imagine是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 想象， 设想， 料想，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I should imagine that hemight be here to-morrow, sir.
-- You may imagine howdelightful it was to my feelings, Copperfield, to see the mattersettled with it, and Mrs. Micawber recover her spirits.'
-- I couldnot imagine why Dora had been making tempting little faces at me,as if she wanted to kiss me.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The aunt was a capricious woman, and governed her husband entirely; but it was not in Mr. Weston's nature to imagine that any caprice could be strong enough to affect one so dear, and, as he believed, so deservedly dear.
-- What do you imagine his age to be?'
-- I can imagine your objection to Harriet Smith.
-- How can Emma imagine she has any thing to learn herself, while Harriet is presenting such a delightful infe-riority?
-- Can you imagine any thing nearer perfect beauty than Emma altogether face and fig-ure?'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Many are not so stealthy and gradual as we may be apt to imagine in considering the general torpidity of a moor or waste.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You can no more imagine the one without the other, than you can think of a jail without a turnkey.
-- But then he was on very good terms with the widow; he used to call her "mamma," and put his arm round her waist, a piece of flattery perhaps not appreciated to the full!The worthy woman might imagine this to be an easy feat; but, as a matter of fact, no arm but Vautrin's was long enough to encircle her.
-- Just imagine it!There was a splendid carriage waiting at the corner of the Place de l'Estrapade, and _she_ got into it."
-- Imagine a pair of great dark eyes, a magnificently moulded hand, a shapely foot.
-- Vauquer, "just imagine it; he did not even ask Victorine to sit down, she was standing the whole time.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You may easily imagine that I was much gratified by the offered communication, yet I could not endure that he should renew his grief by a recital of his misfortunes.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scarlett could not imagine her mother's handswithout her gold thimble or her rustling figure unaccompanied by the small negro girl whose sole function in life wasto remove basting threads and carry the rosewood sewing box from room to room, as Ellen moved about the housesuperintending the cooking, the cleaning and the wholesale clothes-making for the plantation.
-- "I can't imagine how Mr. Wilkes must feel having him here, but he was visitingMr. Kennedy in Jonesboro something about buying cotton and, of course, Mr. Kennedy had to bring him along withhim.
-- Everyone edged forward, in anticipation, trying to imagine what the sedate doctor could propose that would beshocking.
-- Just imagine what Pittypat and Melly cowering intheir beds would think, should Captain Butler come upstairs!
-- "I can't imagine what possessed you to receive him in the firstplace.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I slept at all that night, it was only to imagine myself drifting down the river on a strong spring-tide, to the Hulks; a ghostly pirate calling out to me through a speaking-trumpet, as I passed the gibbet-station, that I had better come ashore and be hanged there at once, and not put it off.
-- Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been.
-- It was tempting to think of that expensive Mercenary publicly airing his boots in the archway of the Blue Boar's posting-yard; it was almost solemn to imagine him casually produced in the tailor's shop, and confounding the disrespectful senses of Trabb's boy.
-- "I should think it was a strong point," said Herbert, "and I should think you would be puzzled to imagine a stronger; as to the rest, you must bide your guardian's time, and he must bide his client's time.
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