"Then there is something here," I answered, "still unexplained. Consider the oddity of the conception, sire, the secrecy of the performance, the hour, the mode, all the surrounding circumstances! I can imagine a man currying favour with the basest and most dangerous class by such means. I can imagine a conspiracy recruited by such means. I can imagine this shibboleth of the shutter grown to a watchword as deadly as the 'TUEZ!' of '72. I can imagine all that, but I cannot imagine a man acting thus out of pure benevolence."英文原著 · 《From the Memoirs of a Minister of France》
IMAGINE all human beings swept off the face of the earth, excepting one man. Imagine this man in some vast city, New York or London. Imagine him on the third or fourth day of his solitude sitting in a house and hearing a ring at the door-bell!英文原著 · 《Ponkapog Papers》
But then you never came to me and I have feared that you did not care. But to-night I must know. I must know now." He raised himself up to a sitting posture. "Tell me, Kathleen; I must know."
"Oh, Jack," she panted. "You are not yourself now. You are weak and just imagine things."
"Imagine things," he cried with a kind of fierce rage. "Imagine! Haven't I for these three months fought against this every day?英文原著 · 《The Major》
Bigotry tends to an indescribably tiresome kind of humility which does not exclude pride. Whether from modesty or by choice, Madame de Granville seemed to have a horror of light and cheerful colors; perhaps, too, she imagined that brown and purple beseemed the dignity of a magistrate. How could a girl accustomed to an austere life have admitted the luxurious divans that may suggest evil thoughts, the elegant and tempting boudoirs where naughtiness may be imagined?英文原著 · 《A Second Home》
`I imagine it won't be possible to avoid going. Here, take it,' she said to Tania, who was pulling the loosely fitting ring off her white, slender-tipped finger. `I shall be so glad if you go. I should so like to see you at a ball.'
`Anyway, if I do go, I shall comfort myself with the thought that it's a pleasure to you.... Grisha, don't pull my hair. It's untidy enough without that,' she said, putting up a straying lock, which Grisha had been playing with. `I imagine you at the ball in lilac.'
`And why in lilac, precisely?' asked Anna, smiling. `Now, children, run along, run along.英文原著 · 《ANNA KARENINA》
Oh, you can't imagine the number of fields in which we need making over; but of course you, of all people, can imagine. Little by little I am getting my eyes wide open, and things that just looked funny to me at first, now--oh dear! It's very disillusionizing. Every funny thing that comes up seems to have a little tragedy wrapped inside it.英文原著 · 《Dear Enemy》
And if dogs don't work for you, then you imagine they want to kill your sister or your buddy, and you imagine that that man at the receiving end of your burst of automatic weapon fire wants to kill your mother.美剧 · 《Shameless》
♪ Imagine me and you, I do ♪ ♪ I think about you day and night ♪ ♪ It's only right to think about the one you love ♪ ♪ And hold her tight ♪ ♪ So happy together ♪ ♪ If I should call you up, invest a dime ♪ ♪ And you say you belong to me ♪ ♪ And ease my mind ♪ ♪ Imagine how the world could be, so very美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
I know, and I can imagine how frustrating-- No, you can't imagine.美剧 · 《The News Room》