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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you can imagine a lance, or a battering ram, or a hammer weighing nearly half a ton driven by a cool, quiet mind living in the handle of it, you can roughly imagine what Kaa was like when he fought.
-- Then you can imagine the times that he had with his companions, ducking under the rollers; or coming in on top of a comber and landing with a swash and a splutter as the big wave went whirling far up the beach; or standing up on his tail and scratching his head as the old people did; or playing 'I'm the King of the Castle' on slippery, weedy rocks that just stuck out of the wash. Now and then he would see a thin fin, like a big shark's fin, drifting along close to shore, and he knew that that was the Killer Whale, the Grampus, who eats young seals when he can get them; and Kotick would head for the beach like an arrow, and the fin would jig off slowly, as if it were looking for nothing at all.
-- Every night a mob of these horses would be sure to break their heel ropes and stampede up and down the camp through the mud in the dark, or the camels would break loose and run about and fall over the ropes of the tents, and you can imagine how pleasant that was for men trying to go to sleep.
-- Imag-ine the feelings of Sunol if a car-horse called her a 'skate,' and you can imagine how the Australian horse felt.
-- Unless you have been there you cannot imagine what a frightening effect this steady come-down of troops has on the spectators, even when they know it is only a review.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Think you, Alice, that I would trust those I love by this secret path, did I imagine such need could happen?'
-- In short, so rapidly had the sav-age sounds diffused themselves over the barren rock, that it was not difficult for the anxious listeners to imagine they could be heard beneath, as in truth they were above on ev-ery side of them.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My own thoughts were then constantly occupied with love, but I never could imagine connubial bliss till after tea.
-- It was unsatisfactory, and I could not imagine that she would be content with me; I was not content with myself.
-- But now that I had seen Strickland in Paris it was difficult to imagine him in those surroundings.
-- I imagine that she had never looked with approval on her sister's leaning towards persons who cultivated the arts.
-- You can't imagine what the winters are like in those countries, so long and dark and cold.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The shape of the island is so strange that we shall not he troubled to imagine what it resembles.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, Nell had still the piece of gold sewn in her dress; and when she came to consider the lateness of the hour, and the somnolent habits of Mrs Jarley, and to imagine the state of consternation in which they would certainly throw that good lady by knocking her up in the middle of the night and when she reflected, on the other hand, that if they remained where they were, and rose early in the morning, they might get back before she awoke, and could plead the violence of the storm by which they had been overtaken, as a good apology for their absence she decided, after a great deal of hesitation, to remain.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You cannot imagine how strongly I feel my guilt before you!"
-- He had accustomed himself to the thought of going to Siberia, and living among the exiles and convicts, and it was difficult for him to imagine how he should order his life and that of Maslova if she were freed.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You who have never seen the like can scarcely imagine what delicate and wonderful flowers countless years of culture had created.
-- Can you imagine what I felt as this conviction came home to me?
-- There were other signs of removal about, with queer narrow footprints like those I could imagine made by a sloth.
-- What had happened to the Undergrounders I did not yet suspect; but, from what I had seen of the Morlocks that, by the bye, was the name by which these creatures were called I could imagine that the modification of the human type was even far more profound than among the 'Eloi,' the beautiful race that I already knew.
-- You can scarce imagine how nauseatingly inhuman they looked those pale, chinless faces and great, lidless, pinkish-grey eyes! as they stared in their blindness and bewilderment.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I went back with him to the Admiral Benbow, and you cannot imagine a house in such a state of smash; the very clock had been thrown down by these fellows in their furious hunt after my mother and myself; and though nothing had actually been taken away except the captain's money-bag and a little silver from the till, I could see at once that we were ruined.
-- Imagine the abominable age we live in!
-- You may imagine how I felt when I heard this abominable old rogue addressing another in the very same words of flattery as he had used to myself.
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