1)imagine+名词/代词+名词
The boy likes to imagine himself a flyer.
那孩子喜欢想象自己是个飞行员。
2)imagine+名词/代词+形容词
Imagine yourself rich and famous.
设想一下你自己既有钱又有名的情形。
3)imagine+名词/代词+介词短语
Imagine yourself in his place.
4) imagine+名词/代词+分词
He imagined himself lying summer evening, buried deep among the weeds beneath the tree.
她想象自己在一个夏季的夜晚,躺在树下深密的草丛中。
Can you imagine George cooking the dinner?
你能想象乔治做饭的样子吗?
在上一例中,《朗文现代英汉双解词典》是把cooking作为宾语补足语的。即同于下例中的cooking:
He watched mother cooking the dinner.
但是,它与下例中的sailing在功能上又有什么不同之处呢?
I can hardly imagine Peter/Peter’s sailing across the Atlantic Ocean in five days.
在这里,sailing是动名词,为什么在上面的句子中却是分词呢?这一点对学生们来说并不十分重要,但语法学者尚须做出明确的答复。
imagine后可以用不定式作宾语补足语,当笔者认为这里的不定式似乎一般只是to be。这从下面的例子中可以得到初步证实。
Imagine yourself (to be) rich and famous. (《朗文现代英语双解词典》)
Our producers should constantly imagine themselves to be in the consumer’s position.
我们的生产单位要经常设身处地地为用户着想。(《新英汉词典》)
Imagine yourself (to be) in his place. (《现代英语用法词典》)
本文开头提到打那篇文章的作者只引用了一个例证:
Don’t imagine yourself to be always correct. (《英语常用动词用法词典》)
而这个例子中,作宾语补足语的不定式还是to be。由此可知,高考题中的答案自然是C,B和D不应是正确答案。