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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant; but she left her with every previous resolution confirmed of being humble and discreet, and re-pressing imagination all the rest of her life.
-- Emma was very willing now to acquit her of having se-duced Mr. Dixon's actions from his wife, or of any thing mischievous which her imagination had suggested at first.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness, but they possibly did with Oak to-night, for the delight of merely seeing her effaced for the time his perception of the great difference between seeing and possessing.
-- This circumstance, and the generally sleepy air of the whole prospect here, together with the animated and contrasting state of the reverse fa脙搂ade, suggested to the imagination that on the adaptation of the building for farming purposes the vital principle of the house had turned round inside its body to face the other way.
-- Somebody's some woman's hand had travelled softly over the paper bearing his name; her unrevealed eyes had watched every curve as she formed it; her brain had seen him in imagination the while.
-- Then the munching would recommence, when the lively imagination might assist the eye to discern a group of pink-white nostrils, shaped as caverns, and very clammy and humid on their surfaces, not exactly pleasant to the touch until one got used to them; the mouths beneath having a great partiality for closing upon any loose end of Bathsheba's apparel which came within reach of their tongues.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Young men at his age take no account of obstacles nor of dangers; they see success in every direction; imagination has free play, and turns their lives into a romance; they are saddened or discouraged by the collapse of one of the visionary schemes that have no existence save in their heated fancy.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I try in vain to be persuaded that the pole is the seat of frost and desolation; it ever presents it-self to my imagination as the region of beauty and delight.
-- And thus for a time I was occupied by exploded systems, mingling, like an unadept, a thousand contradictory theories and flounder-ing desperately in a very slough of multifarious knowledge, guided by an ardent imagination and childish reason-36 Frankensteining, till an accident again changed the current of my ideas.
-- I doubted at first whether I should attempt the cre-ation of a being like myself, or one of simpler organization; but my imagination was too much exalted by my first suc-cess to permit me to doubt of my ability to give life to an animal as complete and wonderful as man.
-- But I did not feel the inconvenience of the weath-er; my imagination was busy in scenes of evil and despair.
-- Yet she appeared confident in innocence and did not tremble, although gazed on and execrated by thousands, for all the kindness which her beauty might otherwise have 90 Frankensteinexcited was obliterated in the minds of the spectators by the imagination of the enormity she was supposed to have committed.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Likemost girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.
-- She listened hard and suddenly shewondered if it were only her imagination or if the sound of cannon in the distance had died away.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had cut my knuckles against the pale young gentleman's teeth, and I twisted my imagination into a thousand tangles, as I devised incredible ways of accounting for that damnatory circumstance when I should be haled before the Judges.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Blefuscudians, who had not the least imagination of what I intended, were at first confounded with aston-ishment.
-- Imagination can figure nothing so grand, so sur-prising, and so astonishing!it looked as if ten thousand flashes of lightning were darting at the same time from ev-ery quarter of the sky.
-- After which, like one whose imagination was struck with something never seen or heard of before, he would lift up his eyes with amazement and indignation.
-- And I have rea-son to believe they had some imagination that I was of their own species, which I often assisted myself by stripping up 338 Gulliver's Travelsmy sleeves, and showing my naked arms and breasts in their sight, when my protector was with me.
-- For although, since my unfor-tunate exile from the Houyhnhnm country, I had compelled myself to tolerate the sight of Yahoos, and to converse with Don Pedro de Mendez, yet my memory and imagination were perpetually filled with the virtues and ideas of those exalted Houyhnhnms.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was an air of jaded sullenness in them both, and particularly in the girl: yet, struggling through the dissatisfaction of her face, there was a light with nothing to rest upon, a fire with nothing to burn, a starved imagination keeping life in itself somehow, which brightened its expression.
-- It was altogether unaccountable that a young gentleman whose imagination had been strangled in his cradle, should be still inconvenienced by its ghost in the form of grovelling sensualities; but such a monster, beyond all doubt, was Tom.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His imagination is a perfect volcano, and to make discoveries in the interests of geology he would sacrifice his life.
-- My uncle continued counting and writing; his imagination seemed to have translated him to the skies.
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