They were not friends. They were imaginary colleagues.

他们不是我的朋友，他们是我象中的同事。

Using an imaginary friend as an example can be very useful.

用象出来的朋友作为例子会非常有用的。

In the end, the " shark" proved to be imaginary.

最后，所谓的“鲨鱼”证明并不存在。

Do you understand that Stephanie's not here to treat your imaginary ailments?

斯蒂芬妮到这里来不是为了帮治疗那些臆的毛病吧？

A series of attentions paid to her, and yet not to her but to some imaginary person, by the first man she had ever been inclined to adore, complicated her emotions indescribably.

她有生以来有意去爱慕的第一个男人向她一再表示殷勤，但是这殷勤不是献给她的，而是献给某个像中的人，这使她的情感变得难以容地复杂。

This distinction between victim and empowered is imaginary.

受害者和掌权者的区别是虚假的。

WHEN Charlotte Hobbs decided to teach her 11-year-old pupil about the imaginary maths needed to work out the square root of a negative number, she knew it would be a stretch.

当夏洛特·霍布斯决定教她11岁的学生用来计算负数平方根的虚数时，她这是一个艰巨的任务。

Who hasn't sat in the john and had an imaginary interview on TV?

大家都电视。

Kids have imaginary friends. It's no big deal.

小孩都有象的朋友。没什么大不了的。

In fact we use the subjunctive in English less and less. But in the past we used it much more to talk about possible, desirable or imaginary situations.

事实，我们在英语中越来越少用到虚拟语气了。但是在过去，我们更多的是在谈到某种可能性或是渴望以及幻的时候，用虚拟语气。

This story of my travels to distant lands may seem unbelievable, and in places, disturbing—but the lands I visited and the strange peoples I met are not imaginary, I didn't make them up.

我到遥远国度旅行的故事似乎令人难以置信，还有些地方，令人困惑——但我去的地方和我见过的人都不是我象的，我没有编造我的故事。

Things haven't turned out exactly as I imagined, but I would not change what I have now for that imaginary world.

事情的发展并没有与我象的完全一样，但是我不会用现有的世界去换取那个设的世界。

This tends to reduce music into an object, into an exhibit in an imaginary museum.

这就倾向于把音乐变成一种物体，在一个假的博物馆里展出。

We learn how to create imaginary problems to convenient solutions.

我们学习怎么给原本便捷的方法制造富有象力的难题。

Because being fully present is painful for them, victim children often build an imaginary world in their heads to cope with the dangers they face on a daily basis.

因为完全活在当下对他们来说是痛苦的，受害儿童往往在他们的头脑中建立一个像的世界来应对他们每天面对的危险。

So an easy way to remember this, because this is more a grammar point, and if you speak English, this is more your language, if you see " if" there, " if" stands for " imagine" , " imaginary" . " Imagine" starts with I.

所以，有一个简单的方法把这记住，因为这不只是文法重点，而如果说英文，这个就更是本身的语言了，如果在那里看到if，if 表示" 像" ，" 假设的" ，以 I 为开头的假设。

Bush and Johnston said building the imaginary world took a lot of research.

布什和约翰斯顿说，模拟一个虚幻的世界做大量的准备工作。

And basically on the show, the characters went on these imaginary missions to Mars.

当时演的大概是动画中的人物完成去往火星的虚拟人物。

When Tammy walked down the steps, open the imaginary door and saw me sitting.

当塔米走下台阶时，打开象中的门，看见我坐着。

The midclavicular line is the imaginary line that gets drawn from the midpoint of the left clavicle, or the collarbone, straight down, and you can find where it intersects with the fifth intercostal space.

锁骨中线是一条从左锁骨中间位置笔直画下来的假线，可以找到它与第五肋间隙相交的位置。