核心畫面

A useful picture: a mind that does not stop at the first obvious answer — it keeps making new pictures, so what comes out of it feels fresh rather than copied.

一顆不肯停在「第一個想得到的答案」的腦袋。它會繼續往下生出畫面、繼續問「還可以怎樣」,所以做出來的東西讓人覺得新鮮,更多收起一顆不肯停在「第一個想得到的答案」的腦袋。它會繼續往下生出畫面、繼續問「還可以怎樣」,所以做出來的東西讓人覺得新鮮,而不是照抄。這個字可以貼在那顆腦袋上(形容人),也可以貼在腦袋的產物上(形容作品、辦法、點子)——兩邊講的其實是同一股「還能再想出別的」的能力。

From the word’s history

From imagine + -ative, and imagine goes back to Latin imāginārī "to picture to oneself", from imāgō "image" — the word is built on making images in the mind.

由 imagine 加上 -ative 構成,而 imagine 來自拉丁文 imāginārī「在心裡描出畫面」,字根 imāgō 就是「影像」。所以這個字骨子裡是「會在腦中造出影像的」——不是抽象地思考,而是真的看見還不存在的東西。這也解釋了為什麼它常配在故事、設計、造型這些看得見的成果上。

Wiktionary (imaginative, imagine) — from Medieval Latin imāginātīvus, ultimately from Latin imāgō "image"

One branch

想像力所在

這族就是核心畫面:能力長在人身上,或顯現在人做出來的東西上。

full of ideas (person) · adjective · C1

Good at thinking of new and interesting ideas — used about a person.

有想像力的

原始詞典資料3 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。

imaginativeadj/ɪˈmæd͡ʒɪnətɪv/

  • 1

    Having a lively or creative imagination.

    • an imaginative boy
    • No doubt kibitzers are highly imaginative. How else could they see wins and brilliant combinations that do not exist?
  • 2

    Tending to be fanciful or inventive.

    • an imaginative story
    • From this point of view all philosophy is idealism, an imaginative embellishment of scientific knowledge; and, sure enough, Engels prophesies the decline and extinction of philosophy.
  • 3

    False or imagined.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。