(verb.) form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case; 'Can you conceive of him as the president?'.
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In both, as I should imagine, he replied. 柏拉图.理想国.
None can imagine her ferocious cruelty who has not witnessed her daily acts for over half a year. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯.火星战神.
You may imagine something of my present state. 简·奥斯汀.曼斯菲尔德庄园.
But, she added, looking at Mr. Casaubon, I can imagine what he has written to you about. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
But you can imagine how surprised I was, Mr. Holmes, when, on my return on the Monday, I saw the same man on the same stretch of road. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯归来记.
We are not apt to imagine our posterity will excel us, or equal our ancestors. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
I cannot imagine. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯历险记.
Yes, so I imagined. 简·奥斯汀.爱玛.
The apprehension was for the possibility of evil he imagined. 欧内斯特·海明威.丧钟为谁而鸣.
This gentleman, as may be imagined, was not kept long in ignorance of the secret. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
A more hard-favored set, perhaps, could not be imagined. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托.汤姆叔叔的小屋.
If a gust of wind swept the waste, I looked up, fearing it was the rush of a bull; if a plover whistled, I imagined it a man. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
If I had but most distantly imagined such a possibility---- Mrs. Yorke would still have beaten you. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
Otherwise they could not have imagined that I had returned to my rooms. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯回忆录.
She looked at him from that distance in some trouble, imagining that there might have been an offence in her words. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
He lent it fruitful direction, a different impetus, and the results are beyond his imagining. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
Seeing bad signs, one, with fear, imagines an end for himself and one thinks that imagining comes by divination, Robert Jordan concluded. 欧内斯特·海明威.丧钟为谁而鸣.
Therefore, no one thought of imagining that he cared more for her than for the others. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特.小妇人.
Sir Percival Glyde, she repeated, imagining that I had not heard her former reply. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.
Her heart beat fast, she flew away on wings of elation, imagining a future. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
She went on imagining the scene at the church, which he had by this time approached with his bride. 托马斯·哈代.还乡.
A man always imagines a woman to be ready for any body who asks her. 简·奥斯汀.爱玛.
Really, it's like one of the reaches of the Nile--as one imagines the Nile. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
Seeing bad signs, one, with fear, imagines an end for himself and one thinks that imagining comes by divination, Robert Jordan concluded. 欧内斯特·海明威.丧钟为谁而鸣.
There is a restlessness in all disorders of the mind, which the sufferer imagines can be best relieved by exercise. 哈里特·威尔逊.哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
When a student imagines that philosophy gives him a headache, he never does anything; he is always unwell. 柏拉图.理想国.
After all, important fresh evidence is a two-edged thing, and may possibly cut in a very different direction to that which Lestrade imagines. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯归来记.