There's no question that it's Satan who in these first two books completely overwhelms our imagination.

毫无疑问撒旦在前两卷里,完全颠覆了我们的想象。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Just as soon as we crowded our imagination already with the image of the spear the size of a Norwegian pine, which took a certain imaginative leap on our parts, we realize that Satan and his spear are immeasurably larger even than that.

我们已经对于,那棵已然吸引了我们大量注意力的挪威松木，及和之相比的长矛的大小浮想联翩了，我们意识到撒旦和他的长矛甚至比松木还要广大无边。

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not just our imagination-- they stretch our ability to understand when and where change is possible.

不只延伸了我们的想象，还让我们能理解,怎样的时间和地点，有可能产生变化。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

The idea that emerged the memory of the '81-82 recession is very strong in our imagination because we think that it was caused by lax monetary policy by liberal thinking by the soft-hearted liberals who just didn't want to create any pain and suffering.

出现的观点,在我们的想象中,81-82年的经济衰退很严重,因为我们认为它是由于,松懈的货币政策，不拘一格的思想,那些仁慈的不想制造任何痛苦和疲劳的,自由主义者引发的。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I'm going to do that at the end for this reason: that it has such a special place in the imagination of our culture.

但是现在我放到最后讲是因为：,它在提供我们文化的想象力方面地位如此特殊。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It might not be the way they initially imagined, but one of the things that's great about being our society, being talented students have been the gifts of creative imagination as well as critical thinking.

或许这办法并不像他们原本所想的，但他们有一点是很出色的,无论是作为社会一分子还是有才能的学生,那就是批判思维和富有创新的想象。

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On the other hand, isn't imagination our best guide to logical possibility?

另一方面,想象是通向逻辑可能性的最好的向导吗

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