imaginary

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++i·ma·gi·na·ry /ɪˈmædʒənəri $ -neri/ adjective IMAGINEnot real, but produced from pictures or ideas in your mind 想象的，虚构的 → fictional As she listened, she played an imaginary piano on her knees. 她边听边在膝盖上作弹钢琴状。 We must protect older people from harm, whether it is real or imaginary. 我们必须保护老人免受伤害，无论这伤害是真实的还是假想的。

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imaginary• The events described in the book are imaginary.• We've used an imaginary case history to illustrate them.• If such individuals and such imaginary conversations could provide Mrs Clinton with guidance, she had every right to seek them out.• Cadets are in disarray, Directing Staff shouting advice and encouragement, and the imaginary enemy winning!• When Linda was a child she had an imaginary friend called Booboo.• As if Pike was behind an imaginary glass wall, cut off from the rest of the Church.• He pointed an imaginary gun at me and pretended to shoot.• She'd always had to have an imaginary life simultaneously, as the real one was inadequate.• Many young children have imaginary playmates.• Father saw me throwing imaginary punches on the stairs, and asked me to show him.• Frankie was the kind of guy who lived in an imaginary world all of his own.• The individual suspends his critical judgement and involvement in external reality to becoming passively absorbed in an imaginary world.