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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not all the wildest effects of imagination could have conjured up such a scene!
-- So natural did it seem, that every minute my imagination induced me to expect a vessel coming out under all sail and making for the open sea under the influence of a warm southerly breeze.
-- Nevertheless, though I could neither see nor discover anything, my imagination carried me away into wild hypotheses.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps you can imagine it if you try, though no doubt you won't trouble to use your imagination on my behalf.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps there never was a man, in this troublesome world, so troublesome for the imagination to picture as a boy.
-- It always affected his imagination as wrathful, mysterious, and sad; and his imagination was sufficiently impressible to see the whole neighbourhood under some tinge of its dark shadow.
-- No Poetry and no Art ever charmed the imagination more than the union of the two in this counterfeit cottage charmed Mrs Plornish.
-- Her retirement for the night was always her frostiest ceremony, as if she felt it necessary that the human imagination should be chilled into stone to prevent its following her.
-- So powerfully was his imagination impressed by it, that when his driver stopped, after having asked the way more than once, and said to the best of his belief this was the gateway they wanted, Mr Dorrit stood hesitating, with the coach-door in his hand, half afraid of the dark look of the place.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I advise you to sail away in one of your ships, and never come home again till you have tried your own way,' said Jo, whose imagination was fired by the thought of such a dar-ing exploit, and whose sympathy was excited by what she called 'Teddy's Wrongs'.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But even stripped of these supernatural surmisings, there was enough in the earthly make and incontestable character of the monster to strike the imagination with unwonted power.
-- But in a matter like this, subtlety appeals to subtlety, and without imagination no man can follow another into these halls.
-- Or what is there apart from the traditions of dungeoned warriors and kings (which will not wholly account for it) that makes the White Tower of London tell so much more strongly on the imagination of an untravelled American, than those other storied structures, its neighbors the Byward Tower, or even the Bloody?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The vivid imagination of Master Bates presented the scene before him in too strong colours.
-- So far as an overpowering heaviness, a prostration of strength, and an utter inability to control our thoughts or power of motion, can be called sleep, this is it; and yet, we have a consciousness of all that is going on about us, and, if we dream at such a time, words which are really spoken, or sounds which really exist at the moment, accommodate themselves with surprising readiness to our visions, until reality and imagination become so strangely blended that it is afterwards almost matter of impossibility to separate the two.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.
-- A lively imagination soon settled it all.
-- But NOW suppose as much as you choose; give a loose rein to your fancy, indulge your imagination in every possible flight which the subject will afford, and unless you believe me actually married, you cannot greatly err.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then terrible thoughts racked my imagination about their having found out my boat, and that there were peo-ple here; and that, if so, I should certainly have them come again in greater numbers and devour me; that if it should happen that they should not find me, yet they would find my enclosure, destroy all my corn, and carry away all my flock of tame goats, and I should perish at last for mere want.
-- I went so far with it in my imagination that I employed myself several days to find out proper places to put myself in ambuscade, as I said, to watch for them, and I went frequently to the place itself, which was now grown more familiar to me; but while my mind was thus filled with thoughts of revenge and a bloody putting twenty or thirty of them to the sword, as I may call it, the horror I had at the place, and at the signals of the barbarous wretches devouring one another, abetted my malice.
-- After I had thus laid the scheme of my design, and in my imagination put it in practice, I continually made my tour every morning to the top of the hill, which was from my cas-tle, as I called it, about three miles or more, to see if I could observe any boats upon the sea, coming near the island, or standing over towards it; but I began to tire of this hard duty, after I had for two or three months constantly kept my watch, but came always back without any discovery; there having not, in all that time, been the least appearance, not only on or near the shore, but on the whole ocean, so far as my eye or glass could reach every way.
-- This renewed a contemplation which often had come into my thoughts in former times, when first I began to see the merciful disposi-tions of Heaven, in the dangers we run through in this life; how wonderfully we are delivered when we know nothing of it; how, when we are in a quandary as we call it, a doubt or hesitation whether to go this way or that way, a secret hint shall direct us this way, when we intended to go that way: nay, when sense, our own inclination, and perhaps business has called us to go the other way, yet a strange impression upon the mind, from we know not what springs, and by we know not what power, shall overrule us to go this way; and it shall afterwards appear that had we gone that way, which we should have gone, and even to our imagination ought to have gone, we should have been ruined and lost.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have seen a great deal of him, have studied his sentiments and heard his opinion on subjects of literature and taste; and, upon the whole, I venture to pronounce that his mind is well-informed, enjoyment of books exceedingly great, his imagination lively, his observation just and correct, and his taste delicate and pure.
-- Marianne was astonished to find how much the imagination of her mother and herself had outstripped the truth.
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