英文欣赏：如梦似幻的想象 Imagination
Imagination
想象力
Imagination is the ability of the mind to build mental scenes, objects or events that do not exist, and do not happen in the past.
想象力是一种能力。它可以在脑海中勾勒出现实生活中不存在、不在场或过去曾经发生过的心理画面、物体或活动。
Imagination makes it possible to experience a whole world inside the mind. it gives the ability to look at any situation from a different point of view, and enables one to mentally explore the past and the future.
想象力可以把脑子中的一切感受付诸实践。想象力用不同的观点看待任何一种情形，还可以使人想象过去和未来。
Everyone possesses some imagination ability. In some it may be highly developed and in others it may occur in a weaker form.
每个人都具有一定的想象力，但有些人的想象力可能很丰富，有些人的想象力则比较弱。
It occurs in various forms, one of which is daydreaming.
它有不同的表现形式，白日梦就是其中一种。
Though too much idle daydreaming may make one impractical, some daydreaming, when not being engaged in something that requires attention provides some temporary happiness, calmness and relief from stress.
尽管过多的白日梦会使人不切实际，然而有些白日梦，当我们无法全神贯注于某事物时，却能给人带来短暂的快乐、平静和放松，从压力中得到暂时的解脱。
In your imagination you can travel anywhere in the speed of light. It can make you feel free, though temporarily, and only in the mind, from tasks, difficulties and unpleasant circumstances.
在想象中，你可以以光速畅游世界。尽管想象是暂时的，也只是在脑海中，但是它让你体现自由的感觉，令你远离包袱，远离困难，以及不顺心的环境。
A developed and strong imagination does not make you a daydreamer and impractical. On the contrary, it strengthens your creative abilities, and is a great tool for remodeling your world and life.
一种扩展和坚固想象力并不会让你成为不实用的空想家。相反，它还能提高你的创造能力，并且是重塑你的世界和生活的强大的工具。
This is a great power that can change your whole life. It is used extensively in magic, creative visualization.
它是能够改变你的整个人生的强大力量。想象力在魔术、创造性设想方面有广泛的应用。
When you know how to work with it, you can make your hearts’desires come true.
当你知道了如何运用想象力，你就能梦想成真。
Imagination has a great role and value in each one’s life. We all use it, whether consciously or unconsciously, in most of our daily affairs.
想象力在每个人的生活中都很重要，并且具有很大价值。不管是有意识还是无意识地，在日常生活中，我们都在运用它。
We use our imagination whenever we plan a party, a trip, our work or a meeting. We use it when we describe an event, explain how to arrive street, write, tell a story or cook a cake.
不管是计划一次舞会或一次旅行，还是工作或会议安排，我们都要运用想象力。当我们描述一项活动，说明如何到达某条街，写作，讲故事或做蛋糕时，我们都要运用想象力。
Imagination is a creative power that is necessary for inventing an instrument, designing a dress or a building, painting a picture or writing a book.
想象是一种创造性的力量。发明一个仪器，设计一件服装，设计一幢大厦，描绘一幅图画，写一本书，都必须要运用想象力。
The creative power of imagination has an important role in the achievement of success in any field. What we imagine with faith and feelings comes into being.
想象的创造能力对于在任何领域取得成功都起着重要的作用。包含信念与情感的想象会成为现实。
This means that we should think only in a positive manner about our desires, otherwise we may create and attract into our lives events, situations and people that we don’t really want.
这就意味着我们应该，并且只能以积极乐观的心态规划我们的追求，否则，就会陷入我们不想要的生活、事件、情形和群体之中。
This is actually what most of us do, because we don’t use the power of imagination correctly.
事实上，我们大多数人都是这么做的，因为我们没有正确运用想象力。
Lack of understanding of the power of the imagination is responsible for the suffering, difficulties, failures and unhappiness people experience.
缺少对想象力的理解是有些人感到痛苦、无能、艰难和不幸的原因。
For some reason, most people are inclined to think in a negative way. They do not expect success. They expect the worst, and when they fail, they believe that fate is against them. This attitude can be changed, and then life will improve accordingly.
由于某种原因，大多数人都倾向于消极地思考问题，他们没有想过成功。当遇到失败时，他们想的是更糟糕的情况，他们认为他们的命不好。如果这种态度能够改变的话，他们生活就会相应地得到改善。
Understanding how to use your imagination correctly, and putting this knowledge into practice, for your own and others’benefit, will put you on the golden path to success, satisfaction and happiness.
知道如何正确运用你的想象力，为了你和他人的利益把你的知识付诸于实践，这样你就会踏上通往成功、满足和幸福的金光大道。
1. from a point of view 从一个角度
eg. I am very painful, but from a point of view, this is perhaps the wealth of my life.
但换一个角度来看，这也许是我一生的财富。
2. in various forms 以不同的形式
eg. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it.
同样的教训会以不同的形式不断出现在你面前直到你学会为止。
eg. Of course, Mother’s Day marched on without her and is today celebrated, in various forms, on a global scale.
当然，没有她母亲节也在持续前进，在今天在全球规模的以各种各样的形式庆祝着。
3. be inclined to 倾向于……；有意
eg. Despite this, they may be inclined to lie back and watch the activity.
除此之外，他们可能倾向于躺在后面看着整项活动。
eg. You would be inclined to put that team on new projects again and again.
你可能会倾向于把这样的队伍一次又一次放到新项目中。
4. put…into practice 实行，实施；落实
eg. But that’s hard advice to put into practice sometimes.
可是有时候这是个难以付诸实施的建议。
eg. What most people find difficult, however, is accepting the way these new ideas are put into practice.
但是，人们发现最困难的是接受把新思想应用到实践中来的方式。