喜樂美語
  1. 1aB1/ɪˈmædʒəneri/ · /ɪˈmædʒənəri/想像的；虛構的

    not real, but made from pictures or ideas in your mind. An imaginary person, place, or thing is one you can see in your head, but not in the world around you.

    示範例句 · Example

    When Leo was little, he had an imaginary friend called Bobo.

    逐字當里歐還小的時候，他有一個叫波波的想像朋友。

    imaginary 的畫面可以想成「它住在你腦袋裡，不在你的房間裡」。所以 an imaginary friend 是只有你看得見的朋友，an imaginary piano 是手邊沒有、心裡卻在彈的鋼琴，地圖上的 imaginary line（像赤道）也是——地上根本沒有畫線，是大家一起在心裡看見它。要小心跟 imaginative 分開：imaginary 說的是「這東西不是真的」，imaginative 說的是「這個人／這個點子很有想像力」。

    常見搭配

    • an imaginary friend

      想像出來的朋友

      a friend that a child makes up and plays with, who is not really there

      Lots of young children have an imaginary friend.

    • an imaginary line

      假想線

      a line that people agree to see, though nothing is really drawn there

      The equator is an imaginary line around the middle of the Earth.

    • an imaginary world

      想像的世界

      a whole place that someone makes up in their mind

      Ren likes to draw maps of an imaginary world with three moons.

    • real or imaginary

      不論是真實的還是想像的

      used to talk about both things that are true and things that only exist in someone's mind

      A good teacher listens to a child's worries, real or imaginary.

    • purely imaginary

      純屬虛構

      completely made up; not real at all

      The characters in this book are purely imaginary.

    意思相反

    realactualtrue

core核心畫面

A useful way to hold it: the thing exists clearly, but only on the screen inside your head. You can describe it, draw it, give it a name — and still nobody could ever walk up and touch it, because the only place it was ever made was in someone's mind.

可以想成：這個東西是存在的，只是只存在於你腦中的那面螢幕上。你講得出它長什麼樣、畫得出來、甚至幫它取了名字，但沒有人能走過去摸到它——因為它從頭到尾只在某個人的想像裡被造出來。

同家族的字

意思相反

realactualtrue

原始詞典資料6 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

imaginaryadj/ɪˈmæd͡ʒɪnəɹi/

  • 1

    Existing only in the imagination.

    • imaginary friend
    • Unicorns are imaginary.
  • 2

    Relating or belonging to the imagination.

    • Fiction refers to imaginary stories.
  • 3

    mathematicssciencesHaving no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of √ (called imaginary unit).

imaginarynoun/ɪˈmæd͡ʒɪnəɹi/

  • 1

    Imagination; fancy.

    • By then too Mozart's opera, from Da Ponte's libretto, had made Figaro a stock character in the European imaginary and set the whole Continent whistling Mozartian airs and chuckling at Figaresque humour.
  • 2

    mathematicssciencesAn imaginary number.

  • 3

    human-sciencessciencessocial-scienceThe set of values, institutions, laws, and symbols common to a particular social group and the corresponding society through which people imagine their social whole.

    • The sensory media are sensuous materials which prolong our bodily life into the surrounding world, and hence the media are imaginaries. These perceptually penetrated materials are " imaginaries " because they operate here in our living body […].
    • For example, colonial motifs of many kinds became increasingly central to the British national imaginary from the mid-nineteenth century, while the imaginative significance of 'the soldier' has long been derived from, and helped to sustain, the linkage between national and military imaginaries.

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