在心裡造像的能力
字的根：那塊內在屏幕本身，以及你能在上面造出畫面的能力。
imagination (creative power) · noun · B1
The power to make pictures, ideas, or stories in your mind that you are not seeing in real life.
想像力
核心畫面
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.
可以把 imagination 想成腦袋裡一塊屏幕，你可以在上面造出眼前並不存在的畫面、聲音和故事。這個字其他的用法…更多收起
可以把 imagination 想成腦袋裡一塊屏幕，你可以在上面造出眼前並不存在的畫面、聲音和故事。這個字其他的用法都從這塊內在屏幕分出去：你在上面放了什麼、那些東西是不是真的、以及怎麼把別人的那塊屏幕點亮。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)
Four branches
只存在腦中、並非真實的東西
把重點從『能力』移到『屏幕上那些東西』：一旦強調它們只在屏幕上、不在真實世界，就成了幻想、憑空想像。
imagination (false perception) · noun · B1
Something that you only think you saw or heard, but that is not really there.
幻想；憑空想像
去觸動、或留給別人的想像
把別人那塊屏幕當目標：或是把它點亮、讓他看得入迷，或是故意不把話說滿，留空白讓他自己去補。
capture the imagination · noun · B1
Used in phrases to say that something makes people feel very interested and excited.
引人入勝；抓住興趣
「leave nothing to the imagination」——露骨
上一家的反面：既然『留給想像』是留空白，那『不留任何給想像』就是全都攤在眼前、一點都不留，也就是太露、太直白。
leave nothing to the imagination (revealing clothes) · noun · B1
If clothes leave little or nothing to the imagination, they are so thin or tight that they show the body very clearly.
（衣著）暴露
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。