imagination是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 想象(力) ； 空想， 幻觉； 想象出来的事物，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：
-- Have no imagination at all.'
-- All the devouring and insatiate Monsters imag-ined since imagination could record itself, are fused in the one realisation, Guillotine.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A far more, correct imagination than that of the pseudo-Herschel* had created them; and if they had been placed in rank and file, and copied by some skilful painter's hand, one would, without doubt, have exclaimed involuntarily, 'What a beautiful arabesque!'
-- In the greatest perplexity, he now came out of the last heart in the row; he was unable to put his thoughts in order, and fancied that his too lively imagination had run away with him.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides the charm Oblonsky had in general for everyone, Vronsky had felt of late specially drawn to him by the fact that in his imagination he was associated with Kitty.
-- His conception of her was for him a sacred memory, and his future wife was bound to be in his imagination a repetition of that exquisite, holy ideal of a woman that his mother had been.
-- But in the little corridor she paused, going over in her imagination what had happened.
-- "Come, don't let your imagination run away with you," said Stepan Arkadyevitch piteously.
-- He was thinking now with pleasure and excitement of the race, of his being anyhow, in time, and now and then the thought of the blissful interview awaiting him that night flashed across his imagination like a flaming light.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her imagination carried her far off, and showed her innumerable dangers.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not five times in five years do I have students who understand craftsmanship and precision and maybe some big imagination in hypotheses.
-- She peered along the corridor, and his quickened imagination created sneaking forms, eyes peering from doorways.
-- Whether it was the compulsion of McGurk or the demands of the public-spirited, or whether Gottlieb's own imagination aroused enough to visualize the far-off misery of the blacks in the canefields, he summoned Martin and remarked: "It comes to me that there is pneumonic plague in Manchuria and bubonic in St. Hubert, in the West Indies.
-- The St. Buryan had not seemed large or luxurious, but it was a castle, steadfast among storms, its side a massy wall, as Martin crept down the swaying stairs, thinking all at once, "We're in for it; like going to the scaffold--they lead you along--no chance to resist," and, "You're letting your imagination run away with you; quit it now!"
-- But his imagination had ceased to agitate 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：
-- At the same time he recognised clearly that the dream which had fired his imagination was hopelessly un-attainable so unattainable that he felt positively ashamed of it, and he hastened to pass to the other more practical cares and difficulties bequeathed him by that 'thrice- accursed yesterday.'
-- Anything might happen now!But he felt afraid to think of further possibilities and dared not let his imagination range.
-- He felt a longing to fix his imagination on something.
-- These two pieces of news excited Pulcheria Alexandrovna's disordered imagination almost to ecstasy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After tea, when the door was shut and all was made snug (thenights being cold and misty now), it seemed to me the mostdelicious retreat that the imagination of man could conceive.
-- It seemed tomy imagination as if the portrait had grown womanly, and theoriginal remained a child.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was much easier to chat than to study; much pleasanter to let her imagination range and work at Harriet's fortune, than to be labouring to enlarge her com-84 Emmaprehension or exercise it on sober facts; and the only literary pursuit which engaged Harriet at present, the only mental provision she was making for the evening of life, was the collecting and transcribing all the riddles of every sort that she could meet with, into a thin quarto of hot-pressed pa-per, made up by her friend, and ornamented with ciphers and trophies.
-- 'Such an imagination has crossed me, I own, Emma; and if it never occurred to you before, you may as well take it into consideration now.'
-- She should then have heard more: Mrs. Weston would speak to her, with a degree of unreserve which she would not haz-ard with Isabella; and, she really believed, would scarcely try to conceal any thing relative to the Churchills from her, excepting those views on the young man, of which her own imagination had already given her such instinctive knowl-edge.
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