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<< review queue entry 69075 - submitted by 'richwarm' >> 1) "Imagine that!" is wrong. It means "Wow!" M-W @ imagine that: —used to express that something is remarkable "This tree is more than 300 years old. Imagine that!" TP 「想不到，在台灣，居然看得到世界級的戲曲演出！」 "Imagine that! World-class theater right here in Taiwan!" ------------------------------- 2) 试想 is used to ask the reader/listener to consider a cogent point. TP 試想，如果迪化街沒有南北貨的買賣、熙來攘往的顧客，空有精美古樸的建物立面也不如那份「人氣」來得吸引人。 Think for a second. If Taipei's Tihwa Street traditional dried-foodstuffs stores didn't make it a magnet for people, the old buildings alone would simply not have the same pulling power as the present bustling market atmosphere. 試想一下，在水裡游泳，很不同於陸地上行走，卻可以發展出截然不同的動作。 Think for a moment how different swimming is from moving on solid ground, and how being suspended in water creates an entirely different range of motion. 「試想，頭部受傷血應由頭部往下流，受傷的人無論是立姿或坐姿，在褲腰部位的血滴均不可能成為垂直滴落的型態，」 "Regardless of whether the victim was lying down or standing at the time the blood splattered onto the pants," notes Weng, "there is no way to imagine blood dripping from a head wound onto the pants at that angle." 試想，船員、士兵一出海就是經年累月，上岸後極需尋求生理慰藉，與當地女子交歡留下混血兒，從理論及實際上來說，都極為合情合理。 After all, Zheng's men were at sea for months on end and must have been desperate for female company when they came ashore. It makes perfect sense to imagine that they left some mixed-blood children in their wake. 最近剛以國內第一台「指紋門禁系統」二度獲得國家產品形象金質獎的星友科技公司總經理許文星指出，人類歷史就是一部資訊史，試想十一世紀馬可波羅東遊，倘若沒有留下遊記供後人傳誦，豈不是船過無痕，毫無意義？ Hsu Wen-hsing, founder of Smartek Engineering, whose company has twice won national awards in Taiwan this year for its fingerprint verification device, says that human history can be seen as the history of information. When Marco Polo visited the East in the 13th century, if he had not left a written account of his travels, it would have been a virtually wasted trip. 還有「電子舌」，可以辨嗅出食物中是否暗藏沙門氏桿菌。別以為這是雕蟲小技，試想，要在各種氣味混雜、濃度飄忽不定的情況中獨「嗅」一味，需要多麼精密複雜的辨識及篩選功力！ There are also electronic tongues that can taste (or actually smell) if food has salmonella. This is no mean feat, since the device must pick out the one "stinky" smell denoting danger from many benign ones. It requires enormously complex and precise differentiation and filtering capabilities. 試想，若是「三通」以後，我們的口蹄疫快速傳進大陸，或大陸的流行病很快傳來台灣，後果將會如何？因此大陸若繼續阻擾，其實對兩岸人民都不利。 Think about it: Once direct shipping and transport links are fully established between Taiwan and the mainland, if foot and mouth disease from Taiwan is suddenly brought to the mainland, or some disease from the mainland is suddenly brought over here, what would the result be? 試想，學校朝會時，一群黑鴉鴉的學生中，發現其中一個的頭髮是紫色的，非但不受歡迎，甚至還會被拖出來教訓......。 Just think what would happen if at the morning assembly there appeared a single purple-haired student amid a mass of black-haired students. Not only would he not be welcome, he might even be escorted out for a reprimand. 試想，棉被內的溫度約攝氏四十度，清晨五點走到零下十幾度的室外做紀錄，溫差高達五十度以上，難怪每天早上起床都是一番天人交戰。 Imagine, the temperature under the duvet close to 40oC, and then having to go outside where the temperature is -10oC to record the required data. That is a temperature differential often in excess of 50oC. Needless to say, getting up in the morning is one of the hardest tasks of the day at the Yushan Weather Station. 試想，如果國內馬鈴薯耕種面積擴大後，可以「收復」進口市場，商機將有多大？ Just imagine how big the opportunities would be if Taiwan were to expand its potato acreage and "reclaim" some of the import market! 在野人士很擔心中共飛彈仍對著台灣；但試想現在每天有3,000名大陸民眾在台旅遊，對方若要妄動，會不會有所顧忌？ Members of opposition parties are concerned that mainland Chinese missiles are still pointed at Taiwan. If you think about it, however, wouldn't the mainland government think twice before using them with some 3,000 of its citizens traveling around Taiwan on any given day? |
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- 試想 试想 [shi4 xiang3] /just think!/imagine that!/ + 試想 试想 [shi4 xiang3] /to consider (a cogent point) (usu. used as an imperative – "Think about it: ...")/ |