imaginary是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 想象的， 虚构的，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After such imaginary discourse, the passenger in his fancy would dig, and dig, dig now with a spade, now with a great key, now with his hands to dig this wretched crea-ture out.
-- His hurried right hand parcelled out the herbs before him into imaginary beds of flowers in a garden; and his efforts to control and steady his breathing shook the lips from which the colour rushed to his heart.
-- In aid of the kind de-ception to be practised on his daughter, Miss Pross was to write, describing his having been called away professionally, 277and referring to an imaginary letter of two or three hurried lines in his own hand, represented to have been addressed to her by the same post.
-- Early in the evening he embraced her, and her scarcely less dear namesake, pretending that he would return by-and-bye (an imaginary engagement took him out, and he had secreted a valise of clothes ready), and so he emerged into the heavy mist of the heavy streets, with 347a heavier heart.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he went on talking, his eyes glittered more and more angrily; he was more and more hurried in his replies to imaginary opponents, and his face grew more and more excited and worried.
-- "Yes, papa," answered Seryozha, acting the part of the imaginary boy.
-- She is happy, she makes another person happy, and she's not broken down as I am, but most likely just as she always was, bright, clever, open to every impression," thought Darya Alexandrovna,--and a sly smile curved her lips, for, as she pondered on Anna's love affair, Darya Alexandrovna constructed on parallel lines an almost identical love affair for herself, with an imaginary composite figure, the ideal man who was in love with her.
-- At one time she was jealous of those low women with whom he might so easily renew his old bachelor ties; then she was jealous of the society women he might meet; then she was jealous of the imaginary girl whom he might want to marry, for whose sake he would break with her.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were held in an amphitheater whose seats curved so far around that the lecturer could not see both ends at once, and while Dr. Robertshaw, continuing to drone about blood circulation, was peering to the right to find out who was making that outrageous sound like a motor horn, far over on the left Clif Clawson would rise and imitate him, with sawing arm and stroking of imaginary whiskers.
-- The pastor of the Jonathan Edwards Church touched up a sermon about Sin in High Places by a reference to "one who, while like a Czar he pretends to be safeguarding the city from entirely imaginary dangers, yet winks at the secret vice rampant in hidden places; who allies himself with the forces of graft and evil and the thugs who batten on honest but deluded Labor; one who cannot arise, a manly man among men, and say, 'I have a clean heart and clean hands.'"
-- He smoked till his tongue was raw and till, fortified by the calmness of the porter, he laughed at the imaginary catastrophes.
-- He could not sleep, because an imaginary Ira Hinkley was always bursting in on him.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I've done with fancies, imaginary terrors and phantoms!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This consideration set me thinking and thinking ofan imaginary party where people were dancing the hours away,until that became a dream too, and I heard the music incessantlyplaying one tune, and saw Dora incessantly dancing one dance,without taking the least notice of me.
-- MissLavinia revived herself with a few whiffs of aromatic vinegar-Traddles and I looking on with great solicitude the while; and thenwent on to say, rather faintly'My sister and myself have been ingreat doubt, Mr. Traddles, what course we ought to take inreference to the likings, or imaginary likings, of such very youngpeople as your friend Mr. Copperfield and our niece.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, on the other hand, she could not admit herself to be unhappy, nor, after the first morning, to be less disposed for employment than usual; she was still busy and cheerful; and, pleasing as he was, she could yet imagine him to have faults; and farther, though thinking of him so much, and, as she sat drawing or working, forming a thousand amus-ing schemes for the progress and close of their attachment, fancying interesting dialogues, and inventing elegant let-ters; the conclusion of every imaginary declaration on his side was that she refused him.
-- The event ac-quitted her of all the fancifulness, and all the selfishness of imaginary complaints.
-- Think, then, what I must have endured 540 Emmain hearing it bandied between the Eltons with all the vul-garity of needless repetition, and all the insolence of imaginary superiority.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Individual straws in the foreground were consumed in a creeping movement of ruddy heat, as if they were knots of red worms, and above shone imaginary fiery faces, tongues hanging from lips, glaring eyes, and other impish forms, from which at intervals sparks flew in clusters like birds from a nest.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He equipped himself with wit, rehearsed repartees in the course of an imaginary conversation, and prepared certain neat speeches a la Talleyrand, conjuring up a series of small events which should prepare the way for the declaration on which he had based his future; and during these musings the law student was bespattered with mud, and by the time he reached the Palais Royal he was obliged to have his boots blacked and his trousers brushed.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before, I looked upon the accounts of vice and injustice that I read in books or heard from others as tales of ancient days or imaginary evils; at least they were remote and more familiar to reason than to the imagination; but now misery has come home, and men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each oth-er's blood.
-- If these feelings had not found an imaginary gratification, the appearance 194 Frankensteinof the city had yet in itself sufficient beauty to obtain our admiration.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was modestly wondering whether my utmost ingenuity would have enabled me to say anything that would have amused him half as much as this imaginary pleasantry, when I was startled by a sudden click in the wall on one side of the chimney, and the ghostly tumbling open of a little wooden flap with "JOHN" upon it.
-- The imaginary student pursued by the misshapen creature he had impiously made, was not more wretched than I, pursued by the creature who had made me, and recoiling from him with a stronger repulsion, the more he admired me and the fonder he was of me.
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