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：
-- You are thinking of an imaginary Robinson's life, thrown on a picked island and treated like a spoiled child by nature.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What then must have been her condition, when, among all the imaginary anxieties and calamities which so con-stantly beset her, she now saw looming ahead a serious cause for annoyance something really likely to arouse doubts and suspicions!
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Limmershin gave a long list of them, for he said that Kotick spent five seasons exploring, with a four months' rest each year at Novastoshnah, when the holluschick-ie used to make fun of him and his imaginary islands.
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：
-- * A wide frontier had been laid naked by this unexpected disaster, and more substantial evils were preceded by a thousand fanciful and imaginary dangers.
-- But the task would exceed our prerog-atives; and, as history, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness, it is probable that Louis de Saint Veran will be viewed by pos-terity only as the gallant defender of his country, while his cruel apathy on the shores of the Oswego and of the Hori-can will be forgotten.
-- Aware of the necessity of preserving the dignity of his imaginary character, however, he repressed his feelings, and answered with suitable mystery: 'Spirits differ; some yield to the power of wisdom, while others are too strong.'
-- He was allowed to proceed to the close, the Indians respecting his imaginary infirmity, and Duncan too glad of the delay to hazard the slightest interruption.
-- Instead of entering the cavern, the father and husband drew their tom-ahawks, and posted themselves in readiness to deal their vengeance on the imaginary tormentor of their sick rela-tive, while the women and children broke branches from the bushes, or seized fragments of the rock, with a similar intention.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The imaginary heroes of Daniel Defoe or of Wyss, as well as Selkirk and Raynal shipwrecked on Juan Fernandez and on the archipelago of the Aucklands, were never in such absolute destitution.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Make yourself at home,' adding to this retort an observation to the effect that his friend appeared to be rather 'cranky' in point of temper, Richard Swiveller finished the rosy and applied himself to the composition of another glassful, in which, after tasting it with great relish, he proposed a toast to an imaginary company.
-- After praying fervently, and with many bursting tears, for the old man, and the restoration of his peace of mind and the happiness they had once enjoyed, she would lay her head upon the pillow and sob herself to sleep: often starting up again, before the day-light came, to listen for the bell and respond to the imaginary summons which had roused her from her slumber.
-- She had been remarkable, when a tender prattler for an uncommon talent in counterfeiting the walk and manner of a bailiff: in which character she had learned to tap her little playfellows on the shoulder, and to carry them off to imaginary sponging-houses, with a correctness of imitation which was the surprise and delight of all who witnessed her performances, and which was only to be exceeded by her exquisite manner of putting an execution into her doll's house, and taking an exact inventory of the chairs and tables.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to the statement of the defense that Maslova was drawn into a vicious life by an imaginary (he pronounced the word imaginary with particular virulence) man, he could say that all facts rather pointed to her being the seducer of many victims who were unfortunate enough to fall into her hands.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There appeared in the papers caricatures of every gigantic and imaginary creature, from the white whale, the terrible "Moby Dick" of sub-arctic regions, to the immense kraken, whose tentacles could entangle a ship of five hundred tons and hurry it into the abyss of the ocean.
-- Upon this imaginary creature rested the responsibility of all these shipwrecks, which unfortunately were considerable; for of three thousand ships whose loss was annually recorded at Lloyd's, the number of sailing and steam-ships supposed to be totally lost, from the absence of all news, amounted to not less than two hundred!
-- His hand trembled, as he grasped an imaginary harpoon.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But that way of arguing by imaginary instances is not supposed to be genuine, is it?
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