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。
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One can imagine what answer he made, how he re-ceived his present, and what a blissful state of things ensued.
-- One may imagine her suffering on overhearing fragments of this sort of con-versation.
-- It is one he values much, and I've often ad-mired it, set up in the place of honor with his German Bible, Plato, Homer, and Milton, so you may imagine how I felt when he brought it down, without its cover, and showed me my own name in it, 'from my friend Friedrich Bhaer".
-- Imagine her dismay, on stealing a glance of timid admiration at the poet whose lines suggested an ethereal being fed on 'spirit, fire, and dew', to behold him devouring his supper with an ardor which flushed his intel-lectual countenance.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There seems some ground to imagine that the great Kraken of Bishop Pontoppodan may ultimately resolve itself into Squid.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She could not imagine what business he could have in town so soon after his arrival in Hertfordshire; and she began to fear that he might be always flying about from one place to another, and never settled at Netherfield as he ought to be.
-- 'Yes; these four evenings have enabled them to ascertain that they both like Vingt-un better than Commerce; but with respect to any other leading characteristic, I do not imagine that much has been unfolded.'
-- 'I should imagine not.'
-- He was directly invited to join their party, but he declined it, ob-serving that he could imagine but two motives for their choosing to walk up and down the room together, with either of which motives his joining them would interfere.
-- Her ladyship seemed pleased with the idea; and you may imagine that I am happy on every occasion to offer those little delicate compliments which are always ac-ceptable to ladies.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is impossible to imagine that this should have such an effect as it had, for the fowls would not only not come at the corn, but, in short, they for-sook all that part of the island, and I could never see a bird near the place as long as my scarecrows hung there.
-- It is scarcely possible to imagine the consternation I was now in, being driven from my beloved island (for so it appeared to me now to be) into the wide ocean, almost two leagues, and in the utmost despair of ever recovering it again.
-- Thus in two years' time I had a thick grove; and in five or six years' time I had a wood before my dwelling, growing so monstrously thick and strong that it was indeed perfectly impassable: and no men, of what kind soever, could ever imagine that there was anything beyond it, much less a hab-itation.
-- It is not easy to imagine what confusion this sight put me into, especially seeing them come on my side of the is-land, and so near to me; but when I considered their coming must be always with the current of the ebb, I began after-wards to be more sedate in my mind, being satisfied that I might go abroad with safety all the time of the flood of tide, if they were not on shore before; and having made this ob-servation, I went abroad about my harvest work with the more composure.
-- The poor creature, who had at a distance, indeed, seen me kill the savage, his enemy, but did not know, nor could imagine how it was done, was sensibly surprised, trembled, and shook, and looked so amazed that I thought he would have sunk down.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They will have no carriage, no horses, and hardly any servants; they will keep no company, and can have no expenses of any kind!Only conceive how comfortable they will be!Five hundred a year!I am sure I cannot imagine how they will spend half of it; and as to your giving them more, it is quite absurd to think of it.
-- Imagine to yourself, my dear Elinor, the delight of a gallop on some of these downs."
-- I thought you would, he is so pleasant; and Mr. Palmer is excessively pleased with you and your sisters I can tell you, and you can't think how disappointed he will be if you don't come to Cleveland. I can't imagine why you should object to it."
-- He imagined, and calmly could he imagine it, that her extravagance, and consequent distress, had obliged her to dispose of it for some immediate relief.
-- "Some people imagine that there can be no accommodations, no space in a cottage; but this is all a mistake.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I imagine I could get in," said Hurstwood significantly.
-- She could not imagine that there would be anything in such a lofty sphere for her.
-- Now, it so happened that from his observations of Carrie he began to imagine that she was of the thoroughly domestic type of mind.
-- She could only imagine that it must be evident to many that she was the less handsomely dressed of the two.
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