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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But surely the very name Patagonia, which means ‘great feet' in Spanish, would not have been given to imaginary beings."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Do you comprehend the imaginary case?"
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But, besides real diseases, we are subject to many that are only imaginary, for which the physicians have invent-ed imaginary cures; these have their several names, and so have the drugs that are proper for them; and with these our female Yahoos are always infested.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He thought that he, and some one on whom his heart had long been set but she was not Rachael, and that surprised him, even in the midst of his imaginary happiness stood in the church being married.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then beat an imaginary child, and said, 'Broom-handles and pokers.'
-- But appearing to be incensed by imaginary contradiction, or other ill-usage, Mr F.'s Aunt, instead of relapsing into silence, made the following additional proclamation:'I hate a fool!'
-- After his trinkets, or such of them as he had been able to see about him, were gone, his clothes engaged his attention; and it is as likely as not that he was kept alive for some days by the satisfaction of sending them, piece by piece, to an imaginary pawnbroker's.
-- One day when he might have been some ten or twelve weeks in jail, and when he had been trying to read and had not been able to release even the imaginary people of the book from the Marshalsea, a footstep stopped at his door, and a hand tapped at it.
-- 'If Gilbert Clennam, reduced to imbecility, at the point of death, and labouring under the delusion of some imaginary relenting towards a girl of whom he had heard that his nephew had once had a fancy for her which he had crushed out of him, and that she afterwards drooped away into melancholy and withdrawal from all who knew her if, in that state of weakness, he dictated to me, whose life she had darkened with her sin, and who had been appointed to know her wickedness from her own hand and her own lips, a bequest meant as a recompense to her for supposed unmerited suffering; was there no difference between my spurning that injustice, and coveting mere money a thing which you, and your comrades in the prisons, may steal from anyone?'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Long, quiet days she spent, not lonely nor idle, for her little world was peopled with imaginary friends, and she was by nature a busy bee.
-- Margaret seemed to find it a little hard to tell hers, and waved a brake before her face, as if to disperse imaginary gnats, while she said slowly, 'I should like a lovely house, full of all sorts of luxurious things nice food, pretty clothes, handsome furniture, pleasant people, and heaps of money.
-- As one of these packets contained characteristic notes from the party, we will rob an imaginary mail, and read them.
-- And when Meg told him to behave himself and go away, he wrung imaginary tears out of his handker-chief, and staggered round the corner as if in utter despair.
-- This suited the young lady better than twilight confidences, tender pressures of the hand, and eloquent glances of the eye, for with Jo, brain developed earlier than heart, and she preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It may be worth while, therefore, previously to advert to those curious imaginary portraits of him which even down to the present day confidently challenge the faith of the landsman.
-- The triumphant halloo of thirty buckskin lungs was heard, as much nearer to the ship than the place of the imaginary jet, less than a mile ahead Moby Dick bodily burst into view!For not by any calm and indolent spoutings; not by the peaceable gush of that mystic fountain in his head, did the White Whale now reveal his vicinity; but by the far more wondrous phenomenon of breaching.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Sikes contented himself with tying an imaginary knot under his left ear, and jerking his head over on the right shoulder; a piece of dumb show which the Jew appeared to understand perfectly.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In what imaginary act of friendship can you here defend your-self?
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You would rob it of its simplicity by imaginary improvement!and this dear parlour in which our acquaintance first began, and in which so many happy hours have been since spent by us together, you would degrade to the condition of a common entrance, and every body would be eager to pass through the room which has hitherto contained within itself more real accommodation and comfort than any other apartment of the handsomest dimensions in the world could possibly afford."
-- cried Marianne, her eyes sparkling with animation, and her cheeks glowing with the delight of such imaginary happiness.
-- As Marianne's affection for her mother was sincere, it must triumph with little difficulty, over the imaginary evils she had started.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So subdued was she by her weakening nerves, that she ate quite in silence going over imaginary conceptions of the character of the shoe company, the nature of the work, her employer's attitude.
-- On every hand curious figures were moving--watchers and peepers, without an imaginary circle, which they seemed afraid to enter--a dozen in all.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You hain't done a thing from the start that had any sense in it, except coming out so cool and cheeky with that imaginary blue- arrow mark.
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