im·ag·ery /ˈɪmɪʤri, mɪʤə-/
  肖像,比喻,彫刻
  im·ag·ery /ˈɪmɪʤ(ə)rɪ/ 名詞
  像,畫像,塑像,表像,顯像術,成像
  imagery
  成像
  imagery
  *成像
  Im·age·ry n.
  1. The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass. “Painted imagery.”
  In those oratories might you see
  Rich carvings, portraitures, and imagery.   --Dryden.
  2. Fig.: Unreal show; imitation; appearance.
     What can thy imagery of sorrow mean?   --Prior.
  3. The work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms.
     The imagery of a melancholic fancy.   --Atterbury.
  4. Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse.
     I wish there may be in this poem any instance of good imagery.   --Dryden.
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  imagery
       n : the ability to form mental images of things or events; "he
           could still hear her in his imagination" [syn: imagination,
            imaging, mental imagery]
  Imagery
     only in the phrase "chambers of his imagery" (Ezek. 8:12). (See CHAMBER.)