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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His childish imagination evidently retraced all the scenes of his father's shipwreck.
-- "Very well, then, since that is the case, my advice is not to let your imagination rely on successive and contradictory evidence.
-- "My dear Monsieur Paganel," said Lady Helena, "you are letting your imagination run away with you, as usual.
-- Think, my friends, of a continent, the margin of which, instead of the center, rose out of the waves originally like a gigantic ring, which encloses, perhaps, in its center, a sea partly evaporated, the waves of which are drying up daily; where humidity does not exist either in the air or in the soil; where the trees lose their bark every year, instead of their leaves; where the leaves present their sides to the sun and not their face, and consequently give no shade; where the wood is often incombustible, where good-sized stones are dissolved by the rain; where the forests are low and the grasses gigantic; where the animals are strange; where quadrupeds have beaks, like the echidna, or ornithorhynchus, and naturalists have been obliged to create a special order for them, called monotremes; where the kangaroos leap on unequal legs, and sheep have pigs' heads; where foxes fly about from tree to tree; where the swans are black; where rats make nests; where the bower-bird opens her reception-rooms to receive visits from her feathered friends; where the birds astonish the imagination by the variety of their notes and their aptness; where one bird serves for a clock, and another makes a sound like a postilion cracking of a whip, and a third imitates a knife-grinder, and a fourth the motion of a pendulum; where one laughs when the sun rises, and another cries when the sun sets!Oh, strange, illogical country, land of paradoxes and anomalies, if ever there was one on earth—the learned botanist Grimard was right when he said, ‘There is that Australia, a sort of parody, or rather a defiance of universal laws in the face of the rest of the world.'"
-- Paganel was inclined to think it was some description of meteor, and his lively imagination was already in search of an explanation, when Ayrton cut short all his conjectures summarily, by announcing that the cloud of dust was caused by a drove of cattle on the road.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The story took a great hold upon the imagination of Sir Charles, and I have no doubt that it led to his tragic end.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps he too was a man of imagination and with some capacity for thought.
-- The surprise of the general's imagination fell very flat, for she at once began to address him in terms of reproach.
-- It seems hardly necessary to remark that her family worries and anxieties had little or no foundation, or that her imagination increased them to an absurd degree; but if you have a wart on your forehead or nose, you imag-ine that all the world is looking at it, and that people would make fun of you because of it, even if you had discovered America!Doubtless Lizabetha Prokofievna was considered 'eccentric' in society, but she was none the less esteemed: the pity was that she was ceasing to believe in that esteem.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elaborated in the imagination of Mr. Gould, the probationary assistant in the National School, this theory took the form that the stranger was an Anarchist in disguise, preparing explosives, and he resolved to undertake such detective operations as his time permitted.
-- They concluded I had not answered them, that their imagination had deceived them.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had been a mere lad then, and Moreau was, I suppose, about fifty, a prominent and masterful physiologist, well-known in scientific circles for his extraordinary imagination and his brutal directness in discussion.
-- I thought that my nerves were unstrung, and that my imagination was tricking me, and turned resolutely towards the sound of the sea again.
-- My unfortu-nate imagination set to work to torment me.
-- My imagination was running away with me into a morass of unsubstantial fears.
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：
-- ' Death of Agrippina he sudden and almost magical change, from the stirring Tincidents of the combat to the stillness that now reigned around him, acted on the heated imagination of Heyward like some exciting dream.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- About a mile and a half from the cottage, along the narrow winding valley of Allenham, which issued from that of Barton, as formerly described, the girls had, in one of their earliest walks, discovered an ancient respectable looking mansion which, by reminding them a little of Norland, interested their imagination and made them wish to be better acquainted with it.
-- Her imagination was busy, her reflections were pleasant, and the pain of a sprained ankle was disregarded.
-- In one moment her imagination placed before her a letter from Willoughby, full of tenderness and contrition, explanatory of all that had passed, satisfactory, convincing; and instantly followed by Willoughby himself, rushing eagerly into the room to inforce, at her feet, by the eloquence of his eyes, the assurances of his letter.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her imagination trod a very narrow round, always winding up at points which concerned money, looks, clothes, or enjoyment.
-- Carrie had more imagination than they.
-- She had imagination enough to be moody.
-- In reality, Carrie had more imagination than he--more taste.
-- As usual, imagination exaggerated the possibilities for her.
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