Imagine

Definition

imagine / Ç'mædʒÇn / v ၁။ စိတ္ကူးစိတ္သန္းထုတ္သည္။ ေတြးသည္။ စိတ္ကူးသည္။ Imagine a house with a big garden. ❍ Imagine (that) you are on a desert island. ❍ Can you imagine what it's like to spend so much time alone? ❍ She imagined walking into the office and handing in her resignation. ❍ Imagine yourself (to be) rich and famous. ၂။ စိတ္ကူးၾကည့္သည္။ စိတ္ကူးမိသည္။ I can't imagine that anyone would want such a thing. ❍ I can't imagine living anywhere else. ❍ Would you ever have imagined him / his becoming a politician? ၃။ ထင္သည္။ မွတ္သည္။ I imagine (that) John will be at the party.

Examples

1. She tried to imagine the scene.
2. [imagine (that)] : Imagine that you are lying on a beach.
3. [imagine (someone) doing something] : Imagine yourself sitting behind your big new desk.
4. [imagine someone/something as something] : I imagine him as a distinguished old gentleman.
5. [imagine someone/something to be something] : I think they imagine the company to be bigger than it is.
6. It’s hard to imagine a more unpleasant job.
7. [imagine/you can imagine/just imagine something] : Imagine my surprise when they announced I had won!
8. [imagine (that)] : He had never imagined that digging was such hard work.
9. [imagine what/why/how etc] : You can imagine what the newspapers would do if they ever found out about this.
10. [fondly imagine] : I had fondly imagined that riding a camel would be easy.
11. She always imagines the worst (=thinks the worst possible thing has happened).
12. ‘There! I heard it again!’ ‘There’s nothing there – you’re just imagining things!’
13. [imagine (that)] : In these situations
14. you imagine everyone is laughing at you.
15. [imagine doing something] : Imagine going out dressed like that!
16. [(just) imagine/imagine that] : She now earns over 20 million dollars a film! Just imagine that!
17. It’s difficult
18. I imagine
19. to keep your interest alive after doing the job for 30 years.
20. [imagine (that)] : I imagine they’ve left already.