1. 想象;想象力
    Your imagination is the ability that you have to form pictures or ideas in your mind of things that are new and exciting, or things that you have not experienced.

    e.g. Antonia is a woman with a vivid imagination...
           安东尼娅是个想象力丰富的女人。
    e.g. Alistair had a logical mind, and little imagination...
           阿利斯泰尔逻辑思维能力很强,但缺乏想象力。

2. 想象；空想；幻想
    Your imagination is the part of your mind which allows you to form pictures or ideas of things that do not necessarily exist in real life.

    e.g. Long before I ever went there, Africa was alive in my imagination.
           早在我真正踏足之前很久,非洲就已在我的脑海中活灵活现了。

3. 吸引…的注意力;摄人魂魄;引人入胜
    If you say that someone or something captured your imagination, you mean that you thought they were interesting or exciting when you saw them or heard them for the first time.

imagination是什么意思

    e.g. Italian football captured the imagination of the nation last season.
           上个赛季意大利足球吸引了全国上下的注意。

4. 发人深省;予人启迪
    If you say that something stretches your imagination, you mean that it is good because it makes you think about things that you had not thought about before.

    e.g. Their films are exciting and really stretch the imagination.
           他们的电影非常精彩且发人深省。

5. not by any stretch of the imagination -> see stretch