1. Everything I was experiencing — the ride in the elevator, being in an apartment, eating day-old food that had been stored in a refrigerator — was such a good idea that I could imagine I would grow used to it and like it very much.
    我现在所经历的每一样东西——乘电梯、住套房、吃那在冰箱里存放了一天的食物——都是我能想象得到的美妙东西, 以至于我认为我会慢慢地习惯，而且还会非常喜欢它们的。

2. We sometimes imagine a desert island to be a sort of paradise where the sun always shines.
    我们有时想象荒岛是阳光终日普照的天堂。

3. The stars are so fiery hot that they give off great light and heat — more than the hottest, brightest fire you can imagine.
    星星像火一样的灼热，释放大量的光和热——比我们所能想象的最热、最亮的火所发出的能量还要大。

4. They're too big, too forbidding, and I can't imagine feeling that I'm part of them, and that I'm in them.
    它们太巨大了,令人生畏，很难设想我会感到我是他们中的一部分、而且还身在其中。

5. Nobody can imagine an end to numbers.
    谁也想不出最终是个什么数。

6. High achievers, we imagine, were wired for greatness from birth.
    在我们想像中，取得卓越成就的人一出生就注定会不平凡。

7. Sixty years! Can you imagine it?
    六十个年头! 你能想象得到吗?

8. People are amazed at your "insight" because most are so vain (爱虚荣的) they can't imagine how much they have in common with the rest of the population.
    他们会惊讶于你的"洞察力"，因为多数人太爱虚荣，以至想像不到自己实际和其他人一样平庸。

9. He can only imagine what his only child looks like now, as a teenaged honor student.
    他惟一的孩子--一个10多岁的优等生--现在长什么模样，他只能想像了。

10. Neither the people who own stock in the company, nor the officers of the 220 banks that provided history's biggest loan, nor the 3,000 journalists trying to imagine three parallel tunnels beneath 100 feet of water and 130 feet of clay.
    不论是公司的股票持有人，还是提供了历史上最大贷款的220家银行的官员们，或者是3,000名记者，都无一例外。记者们只可尽力想像水下100英尺、泥土下130英尺的三条并行的隧道的状况。