You can picture 'imagination' as a screen inside your head where you can make pictures, sounds, and stories that aren't in front of you right now. Everything else about the word branches off that one inner screen: what you put on it, whether it's real, and how you get someone else's screen lit up.
From the word’s history
From Latin imaginatio 'imagination, a fancy', from imaginari 'to form a mental picture', from imago 'image, likeness, picture'. Imagination is literally the making of images — the mind picturing what the eyes aren't seeing.
來自拉丁文 imaginatio（想像、幻想），源自 imaginari（在心中造出影像），字根 imago 是『影像、畫面、相貌』。imagination 字面就是『造出影像』——心裡畫出眼睛沒看到的東西。
etymonline.com/word/imagination (Online Etymology Dictionary)
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原始詞典資料4 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。
imaginationnoun/ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/
- 1
The image-making power of the mind; the act of mentally creating or reproducing an object not previously perceived; the ability to create such images.
- Imagination is one of the most advanced human faculties.
- She removed Stranleigh’s coat with a dexterity that aroused his imagination.
- 2
Particularly, construction of false images; fantasizing.
- You think someone's been following you? That's just your imagination.
- 3
Creativity; resourcefulness.
- His imagination makes him a valuable team member.
- 4
A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; something imagined.
- It is a pleasant imagination to conceive a spirit iustly ballanced betweene two equall desires.
- And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.
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