Imaginative

(adj.) (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action; 'an imaginative use of material'; 'the invention of the knitting frame by another ingenious English clergyman'- Lewis Mumford; 'an ingenious device'; 'had an inventive turn of mind'; 'inventive ceramics' .

录入:斯科特

• But then I am an imaginative man; and the butcher, the baker, and the tax-gatherer, are not the only credible realities in existence to my mind. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Did the Azilians play with these pebbles or tell a story with them, as imaginative children will do with bits of wood and stone nowadays? 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• A visual image, or mental picture, is popularly taken as characteristic of the imaginative process. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• I am sensitive, ardent, conscientious, and imaginative. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Above all a reasonable and practical proposal must not require any imaginative patience. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Imaginative writers have supposed that he had great spiritual struggles, that he went out into the desert in agonies of doubt and divine desire. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• There is a considerable imaginative appeal in the obscure story of the early American civilizations. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Whatever initiative and imaginative vision he possesses will be called into play and control his impulses and habits. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• But there were plenty of contradictions in his imaginative demands. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Across all her imaginative adornment of those whom she loved, there darted now and then a keen discernment, which was not without a scorching quality. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• We discover a man of great imaginative power but tortuous in the Arab fashion, and with most of the virtues and defects of the Bedouin. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Science is still too recent to have been absorbed into imaginative and emotional disposition. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• More alert and imaginative than other boys, and with an uncommonly good memory, he made great headway at Mr. Coryton’s grammar school, where he went when he was six. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• But Newland Archer was too imaginative not to feel that, in his case and May's, the tie might gall for reasons far less gross and palpable. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• A sensitive, ardent, conscientious, and imaginative man, Mr Flintwinch, must be that, or nothing! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• That sense of an impersonal machine going on with endless reiteration is an experience that imaginative politicians face. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Unless such activity reacts to enlarge the imaginative vision of life, it is on a level with the busy work of children. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• But a politician with some imaginative interest in genuine affairs need not be seduced into the learned folly of pretending that reality is something else than it is. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• It is Adeimantus who is the respondent in the more argumentative, as Glaucon in the lighter and more imaginative portions of the Dialogue. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• In the sense of being accompanied by imagery all thinking is imaginative. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Theory, and--to some extent--practice, have advanced far enough to recognize that play-activity is an imaginative enterprise. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• It continued to be a theme of curious interest to the imaginative, and the subject of much fiction, while its neglected commercial possibilities were still more or less vaguely referred to. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• There's no family pride about me, there's no imaginative sentimental humbug about me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• That is why imaginative socialists have shown so great an interest in syndicalism. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The real life of the ordinary man is his everyday life, his little circle of affections, fears, hungers, lusts, and imaginative impulses. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He was naturally sceptical of the imaginative will, and with a great respect for and comprehension of established fact. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In that respect he had an imaginative greatness Napoleon lacked. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Thus old Featherstone was imaginative, after his fashion. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• When a man tells me anything about imaginative qualities, I always tell that man, whoever he is, that I know what he means. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.

整理:玛丽