He is eighty-four years old and yesterday the Department of Education gave him a medal for having completed sixty years of teaching. Sixty years! Can you imagine it?
Imagine his surprise when he found that his beard was a foot longer than it had been before!
可以想象壹下，他發現他的胡子比以前長了壹尺時該多麽吃驚啊！
You may imagine their astonishment at finding the room empty.
We never imagined that John would become a doctor..
我們從來沒有想象過，約翰居然會成為壹個醫生。
I can’t imagine what was happened.
我無法想象出了什麽事。
You can’t imagine how I missed the bird.
2. Imagine 後跟動詞時，動詞須用動名詞的形式。如：
Try to imagine being on the moon.
設想壹下在月球上的情形。
I can’t imagine lying like that. I would go crazy.
She imagined walking into the office and telling everyone what she thought of them.
他想象著自己走進辦公室並告訴每個人她對他們有何看法這樣壹幅情景。
在下面壹句中，動名詞前面出現了邏輯主語：
Can you imagine me my being so stupid?
妳以為我如此愚蠢嗎？
Would you ever have imagined him/his becoming a politician?
妳想到過他會成為壹個政治家嗎？
3. imagine後面還可以跟復合賓語，如：
1）imagine+名詞/代詞+名詞
The boy likes to imagine himself a flyer.
那孩子喜歡想象自己是個飛行員。
2）imagine+名詞/代詞+形容詞
Imagine yourself rich and famous.
設想壹下妳自己既有錢又有名的情形。
3）imagine+名詞/代詞+介詞短語
Imagine yourself in his place.
4) imagine+名詞/代詞+分詞
He imagined himself lying summer evening, buried deep among the weeds beneath the tree.
她想象自己在壹個夏季的夜晚，躺在樹下深密的草叢中。
Can you imagine George cooking the dinner?
妳能想象喬治做飯的樣子嗎？
在上壹例中，《朗文現代英漢雙解詞典》是把cooking作為賓語補足語的。即同於下例中的cooking：
He watched mother cooking the dinner.
但是，它與下例中的sailing在功能上又有什麽不同之處呢？
I can hardly imagine Peter/Peter’s sailing across the Atlantic Ocean in five days.
在這裏，sailing是動名詞，為什麽在上面的句子中卻是分詞呢？這壹點對學生們來說並不十分重要，但語法學者尚須做出明確的答復。
imagine後可以用不定式作賓語補足語，當筆者認為這裏的不定式似乎壹般只是to be。這從下面的例子中可以得到初步證實。
Imagine yourself (to be) rich and famous. (《朗文現代英語雙解詞典》)
Our producers should constantly imagine themselves to be in the consumer’s position.
我們的生產單位要經常設身處地地為用戶著想。（《新英漢詞典》）
Imagine yourself （to be） in his place. (《現代英語用法詞典》)
本文開頭提到打那篇文章的作者只引用了壹個例證：
Don’t imagine yourself to be always correct. (《英語常用動詞用法詞典》)
而這個例子中，作賓語補足語的不定式還是to be。由此可知，高考題中的答案自然是C,B和D不應是正確答案。
4. imagine 後跟帶有as的賓語補足語
前面我們敘述了imagine後跟復合賓語的各種情形。但是，在有些賓語補足語前也可以用as。如：
I had imagined you as a big tall man.
我原以為妳是壹個高大個兒。
He imagine himself as the saviour of his country.
他把自己想象成為國家的救星。
I imagined him as being older
5. imagine 壹般不用於進行時，但《現代英語用法詞典》中卻出現了下面的句子：
He’s always imagining dangers that don’t exist.
他總是想象壹些並不存在的危險。