Imagery

(n.) The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass.

(n.) Fig.: Unreal show; imitation; appearance.

(n.) The work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms.

(n.) Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse.

整理:罗德尼

• Nowhere in Plato is there a deeper irony or a greater wealth of humour or imagery, or more dramatic power. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• On the other hand, Galton, after his classical study of mental imagery (1883), stated that scientific men, as a class, have feeble powers of visual representat ion. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Professor Dilth ey has collected many other records of the hallucinatory clearness of the visual imagery of literary artists. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Triangles and rectangles cease to suggest meadows, or vineyards, or any definite imagery of that sort, and are discussed in their abstract relationship. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• In the sense of being accompanied by imagery all thinking is imaginative. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Many men and a yet larger number of women , and many boys and girls, declared that they habitually saw mental imagery, and that it was perfectly distinct to the m and full of color. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Does the bird's ability to recognize imply the possession of memory, or imagery? 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The psyc hology of individuals and groups shows startling differences in the k ind and vividness of imagery. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

校对:塞尔玛