imagination

• n.[精神的な]想像力; 空想; 空想

imagineから想像する。

imagination (n.)

"faculty of the mind which forms and manipulates images," mid-14c., ymaginacion, from Old French imaginacion "concept, mental picture; hallucination," from Latin imaginationem (nominative imaginatio) "imagination, a fancy," noun of action from past participle stem of imaginari (see imagine).

1. A child may not differentiate between his imagination and the real world.

子供は自分の幻想と真実の世界を区別できないかもしれない。

2.A conservatory offers the perfect excuse to let your imagination run riot.

音楽学院は想像力を自由に働かせる十分な理由を持っています。

3.These poems have helped kindle the imagination of generations of children.

これらの詩は一代また一代の子供の想像力をかき立てた。

4.Powell let his libidinous imagination run away with him.

パウエルは淫心になり、浮想した。

5.Long before I ever went there，Africa was alive in my imagination .

私が本当に足を踏み入れる前から、アフリカは私の頭の中で生き生きとしていた。