Definition of vision in English:

vision

noun ˈvɪʒ(ə)nˈvɪʒən

1mass noun The faculty or state of being able to see.
视力；视觉
she had defective vision
她的视力有缺陷。
Example sentencesExamples
- Future treatment will focus on strengthening the left eye and electrical tests to see why her vision is not perfect.
- She is now completely blind in both eyes but still attends Moorfields Eye Hospital in London and hopes surgeons will one day be able to restore her vision.
- Chloe realized that even though she had perfect vision, she was having a hard time reading.
- Those that serve the special senses of smell and vision are purely sensory, and differ from the rest in being essentially extensions of the brain itself.
- Defective vision due to short sight or long sight can be corrected by wearing spectacles, contact lenses or by LASIK.
- Perception, whether through vision or any other sense, is an acquired taste.
- They have keen hearing and good senses of vision and smell.
- As the lights grew brighter, and his vision adjusted, Mark was able to make out a figure in the distance, running toward him.
- Slowness influences not only Franklin's behaviour, but also his vision, his thought and his speech.
- Soon, I was able to focus my vision and recognized a tall rose garden just outside the elevator exit through the open door of the cab.
- A team of researchers exploring the eye's genetic make-up say they may have found a gene able to restore some vision in people who have gone blind.
- In fact most people do not realise there are at least eight different classifications of colour defective vision plus individual variations.
- Relaxation is one of the treatments for defective vision.
- I have a sense of vision, taste, hearing and smell.
- He moves the ball about quickly and effectively, and his vision and awareness are second to none.
- Some people have an unusually acute sense of vision, hearing, or smell, what psychologists call hyperesthesia.
- Humans, once they have been transformed, have a greater sense of smell, better vision, and elevated hearing.
- She carries a comprehensive electronic package in her wheelhouse which gives superb all round vision.
- In the end, understanding the brain turned out to require understanding vision.
- This causes delayed reactions, decreased vision, impaired sensory perception and postural imbalance.
Synonyms
eyesight, sight, power of sight, faculty of sight, ability to see, power of seeing, powers of observation, observation, perception, visual perception
eyes
field of vision, view, perspective
1. 1.1 The images seen on a television screen.
  （电视）图像
  the box converts the digital signal into sound and vision on an ordinary TV
  Example sentencesExamples
  The sound is travelling slower than the big screen vision!
  We literally had to control all the sound and vision as the continuity announcer would do.
  It was not, however, much of an improvement on the radio news, consisting as it did of a series of still images depicting the news being read out of vision.
  This is not the usual on screen vision, so you'll have to come along and see what is happening.
  The adult education programme, religious service or sports outside broadcast would fade from view and the duty continuity announcer appear in vision.
  Voice-over - The part of a news story when a reporter narrates and vision is shown.
  The bulletin, about the third in 20 minutes, in vision, lasted no more than ten seconds.
  Reading the subtitles takes vision away from the image and allows one to leave the confines of the car.
  By this time the BBC had moved to using the National Anthem as merely an accompaniment in sound to their revolving globe in vision.
  Baker did not appear in vision because at that time presenters did not appear on screen.
  The visitors will be able to read a news bulletin or operate the camera, sound, vision desks or autocue.
2mass noun The ability to think about or plan the future with imagination or wisdom.
眼力；远见
the organization had lost its vision and direction
这个组织已经失去了远见和方向。
Example sentencesExamples
- How can we change the terms of political debate to advance our own moral message and vision of a better future?
- A commitment to such action by any government can only be regarded as an unusual act of political vision.
- Artistic vision, imagination and intuition seem poised in tense opposition to order and rationality.
- We set out to be a Government with a clear direction and vision for the future, supported by the broad mainstream of New Zealanders.
- After years of talking about their plans and their vision for how the industry could develop, they scraped together enough funds to form a partnership.
- Their vision, imagination, intuition, dream mythology and capacity to play, are all fully formed.
- Just think what you could achieve with vision, imagination and drive.
- We need a return to foresight and vision to plan for the Basingstoke of 2030.
- In fact the crown prince's vision and peace plan dovetails nicely with the president's views.
- The wisdom we seek may be better found by enlisting vision and imagination rather than dismissing them.
- But in reality language controls us, our vision, our imagination.
- We need a Council with vision and the ability and willingness to make decisions on the issues presented not the people involved.
- What is needed is vision and the ability to alter the terms of politics once again.
- The future of such traffic decisions depends on what political vision will prevail.
- The question of the Labor leadership is a question about Labor's future direction and policy vision for Australia.
- Is it DeBeers' worst nightmare or their vision for a sparkly future?
- Their vision, ability to make things happen, and possible charisma make Directors ideal leaders.
- Slowly but surely with vision, imagination and hard work it began to capture the interest of the reading public.
- Companies with the right vision can begin planning their future activities along these lines.
- He had vision and was able to make things happen.
Synonyms
imagination, creativity, creative power, inventiveness, innovation, inspiration, intuition, perceptiveness, perception, breadth of view, foresight, insight, far-sightedness, prescience, discernment, awareness, penetration, shrewdness, sharpness, cleverness
1. 2.1count noun A mental image of what the future will or could be like.
  想像；构想
  a utopian vision of society
  社会主义者对社会的构想。
  Example sentencesExamples
  This is the starkest, most distopian vision of a wireless future imaginable.
  Deep down, we sense that we'll never be able to attain this vision on our own.
  If secret societies and weird visions of the future are you cup of tea, drink up.
  Utopias hold out for a vision of the future - a vision of how society ought to be.
  Their efforts for educational advancement lack clear perception of the present and a flawed vision of the future.
  A candidate must have a vision that voters can believe in and he must be able to convince the voters that he has the ability to see his vision through.
  The vision includes plans for an annual volunteer week in an effort to increase the numbers of people engaged in voluntary and community activities.
  Through donations of second-hand equipment and visits by volunteers, Mr Pun was able to turn his vision of a networked Nepal into reality.
  His document looks at the country's declining birth rate and the continuing brain drain and presents an apocalyptic vision of the future in Scotland.
  Is this a Utopian vision of the leisured society of the future, as liberated by technology?
  City's board of directors unveiled their future vision, after revealing details of the deal which means the club can stay at its current home.
  He was the foremost influence on her politics, a man with no party membership but a socialist vision of how society could and should be.
  And this is because of what was not in it - no plan for the future, no vision for Australia, no ideas.
  They also acknowledged his clear plans for the future and his vision for the business and the dairy industry.
  If the business could not sustain itself, they would not be able to fulfil their vision of making all the world's information easily available to users without charge.
  Instead of his artistic ambitions being welcomed, his plans and his vision were distrusted, or simply misunderstood.
  The new head teacher has a clear vision for the future based on an accurate view of the school's strengths and weaknesses.
  Of course we need a long range plan / vision to guide us.
  He also suggested the Greens had a vision of the future that was even more oriented to Maori sovereignty than was Labour's.
  It formally backed the plans of York City Council to create a strategic planning vision for the future of the city.
  Synonyms
  concept, idea, impression, mental picture, view, image, mental image, visualization, notion, theory, abstraction
3An experience of seeing someone or something in a dream or trance, or as a supernatural apparition.
梦幻；幻觉
the idea came to him in a vision
他于幻觉中得到了那个想法。
Example sentencesExamples
- The first outcome of this is their book, Philosophy of Madness, where six of the club's poets-users talk about their visions, fears, dreams and life.
- While Muldrow's dream visions have an element of danger, more often than not they are beneficial to and symbolic of his practical challenges.
- Didn't anyone anywhere else, in any other period of history, experience dreams, visions, prophecies of God?
- These scenes of retrieval of the past are presented as Jones's dreams or hallucinations, half-light phantasmagoric visions.
- About a year ago, my military dreams began - intense visions of entrapment and escaping, of being marked in the eye with laser rays, etc.
- Two other actors (Robert Lalonde and Patricia Nolin) do double duty as hospital staff and as apparitions in these nightmarish visions.
- This transformation, displayed in haunting dream sequences and eerie visions, makes for some genuinely frightening and heart-stopping moments.
- The world of dreams, of trances and of visions would have been to them a real and undifferentiated part of their existence.
- She succeeds, but just as she brings Tom out of his trance he experiences a terrifying vision which send him into a panic.
- The only time that she is able to express herself is when she is talking with the dead or experiencing a vision.
- As if he had captured his fantastic dreams and visions and put them on canvas, Dalí was a master and a pioneer of the surrealistic movement.
- Oh, yes, it was having a sweet old time dreaming visions of sugar-plums before we came along.
- This is a play where priests are elderly and drunk, old ladies mutter curses and blessings, supernatural visions are everywhere and nobody can open their mouth without uttering a mystical insight.
- Fields, an artist from Winston-Salem, N.C., reportedly produces his work while experiencing visions in a trance.
- Ms Vine and Ms Kitson use trances and visions, clairvoyance, dowsing and psychometry trying to pick up stories in the mind from objects to uncover any paranormal activity.
- Without the witches, the ghost, the visions, and the apparitions, ‘Macbeth’ would have been a dull and tiresome play.
- Through it, man no longer sees his source reflected in the world, or dreams, visions and voices, but experiences it directly.
- While in Auxerre Abbey he experienced a vision in which Saint Germain instructed him to find Selby and build an abbey there.
- But Pierre is haunted by a vision in his dreams of a strange, dark-haired peasant woman who attracts him in unexplainable ways.
- From the earliest times, both traditions have learned caution regarding possible visions or apparitions of Christ that do not clearly manifest the five wounds of His passion and death.
Synonyms
apparition, spectre, phantom, hallucination, ghost, wraith, shadow, manifestation, chimera, illusion, mirage, image
Scottish &amp Irish bodach
West Indian duppy
informal spook
literary phantasm, shade, revenant, wight, visitant
rare eidolon, manes
1. 3.1often visions A vivid mental image, especially a fanciful one of the future.
  （尤指对未来的）幻想；梦想
  he had visions of becoming the Elton John of his time
  他幻想成为他那时代的埃尔顿·约翰。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Tow truck came back about an hour later, hooked up the car… after a little panic when his tow rope stopped moving… and I had visions of them having to send out another truck.
  I sat there for a very short while but it was too busy to rest easy, and I had visions of swarms of genetically-enhanced bees and wasps rising from the depths of the hedge to descend upon me, stingers to the fore.
  Afterwards, I twitch nervously and experience flashing visions of her rolling her eyes and barking, ‘What business is it of yours?’
  When I found out that I was expecting her I did think about the fact that that's us with a child at home for the next umpteen years, because we had reached the stage where we had visions of child-free weekends.
  As an Aussie abroad for Christmas, I had visions of myself as an Oliver Twist character, alone, miserable, bereft of friends and family for the festive season.
  But when we came home in January my daydreams became very morbid and I constantly had visions of David in great pain, screaming in agony and us being unable to help.
  I had visions of him going into a coma, though I'm sure he'd probably just throw up.
  I had visions of fillings in all my teeth, long lectures and tellings off about my lack of regular visits, lots of tooth wrenching scraping with the metal thing that would leave my teeth feeling loose for two weeks.
  ‘Volleyball was his life. He had trials for England and had visions of playing professionally,’ said his father.
  I suddenly had visions of having to mow around Bruno.
  When my new baby turned out to be a girl, I had visions of female warriorship for her future.
  I've had planters and hanging baskets crying out for plants but the weather has been so awful I had visions of all the little plants being washed away or pelted to death in the one or two hail storms we had.
  I suddenly had visions of M serving them up for months on end topped with wholemeal flour.
  My sister, indolent and unimaginative as she was, had visions of endless touch-typing speed trials supervised by austere women under flickering striplights.
  When she still hadn't reappeared later on this afternoon, I had visions of her having a supersized rocket strapped to her and her being launched skywards, a ball of singed fur and flame.
  I had visions of a new section at the end of the programme, in which Huw changed into a nice comfy sweater and sat in an armchair while replying to a query from Myrtle in Oxfordshire about her husband's lack of interest in sex.
  When I was much younger, I had visions of cities in the sky, monorails, jet pack travel, houses that cleaned themselves and yes, flying cars.
  In the beginning, I had visions of a fabulous, sweeping, Perspex spiral staircase, ignorant of the fact that this would cost about £35,000.
  He had visions of managing a world-class superstar in the vein of Tom Jones.
  My vision is to be able to take the thoughts and data from a dying brain and transfer them into another body without opening the skull.
  Synonyms
  dream, daydream, reverie, mental picture, conceptualization
  plans, hopes
  fantasy, fancy, flight of fancy, fanciful notion, pipe dream, delusion, figment of the imagination, prospect
4A person or sight of unusual beauty.
美景；美人
madame was a vision in black velvet
Example sentencesExamples
- And then the man appeared before them - a vision of beauty, he rose out of the river, more water creature than man.
- Yet how was I to walk right by dressed in such a brilliant blue and with such a vision of beauty on my arm?
- Instead, she comes on like a marketing course's dream graduate, a vision in pastel shades, from the pristine hair to the cream suit.
- Having spent many happy days climbing and scrambling on this mountain I can think of scores of views that would present a majestic vision of natures beauty.
- Television floods our sight with visions of beauty and wealth, whether from America or Russia or Japan - wherever there is power.
- After all, it is perfectly normal, indeed, deeply human to be moved when nature presents us with a vision of great beauty.
- And so the grand-stands make a brilliant and wonderful spectacle, a delirium of color, a vision of beauty.
- It means that, whenever we choose, we can allow Best Mate to gallop through our unsullied memories, a vision whose beauty cannot be besmirched.
- Just last night it was a vision of beauty awaiting Santa's arrival.
- In life, the girl is disfigured and disabled but after death she is turned into a vision of health and beauty.
- The pure white plumage was reflected perfectly - a shimmering vision of heavenly beauty.
- There are only so many times we can look at the directors vision of ideal beauty through a soft focus and not get annoyed.
- She was a vision of beauty, almost as good looking as our Kyra.
- He will be ever hovering in our collective soul - a white dove - a vision of beauty and purity.
- It's a delicate and yet demanding film, one that will reward the patient viewer with visions of beauty and despair.
- A perfect vision of beauty, made everlasting by its creator so many countless years ago.
- It was said to be a vision of surreal beauty, though evil beyond a child's wildest dreams.
- Instead of piles of brown stew, we got visions of delight.
- Dressed in a long t-shirt and a pair of cut-offs, she was a vision of beauty.
- The reef provides the vision of beauty; reef science supplies the theoretical links.
Synonyms
beautiful sight, vision of loveliness, feast for the eyes, pleasure to behold, delight, dream, beauty, spectacle, picture, joy, marvel, sensation
informal sight for sore eyes, eyeful, stunner, cracker, smasher, knockout, looker, good-looker, bobby-dazzler, peach, honey

verb ˈvɪʒ(ə)nˈvɪʒən

[with object]rare

Imagine.
〈罕〉想像
we visioned a small lawn surrounded with a perfect tangle of trees
Example sentencesExamples
- The ‘mock ‘attempts of suicide may be a similar form of fantasy, where the loved ones are visioned as standing around the hospital bed and they are finally able to realize how unbearable the pain of life was for us.’
- So I hit ‘play’ and filled the car with pipe music, visioning the brave sounds echoing about the hills.
- One chapter, darkly visioning Conrad's clinch with his dead ex-partner's mother, is remarkable and truly shocking.
- Her stomach lurched as she visioned her father in that mess.
- He was visioning the scene at the airport with Vivian.

Derivatives

visional

adjective ˈvɪʒ(ə)n(ə)lˈvɪʒ(ə)n(ə)l

When the proportion of stimulating three kinds of optic cone cells is changed externally, the codes of visional area of cerebral cortex are changed and thus the ability of discrimination between two color objects is improved.
Example sentencesExamples
- After the training course, Phuc realised that computer is the tool to help visional impaired people to integrate into the society.
- We are a specialty optometric practice dedicated to providing visional evaluation and development through vision therapy.

visionless

adjective

In the country of the visionless, the blind man is king.
Example sentencesExamples
- I have to admit that, when the architecture for returning to the Moon was unveiled, the thought that the last three decades of human spaceflight were a visionless mistake crossed my mind.
- I would like to suggest to you that the allegation that non-traditional churches are visionless and that they do not add to nation building is false.
- I have dismally observed that our youth organizations are myopic, lethargic, and visionless in facing these challenges.
- I fear anything that comes out of today's flurry of diplomacy will just be a band-aid solution, typical of this inward-looking, negative, visionless government.

Origin

Middle English (denoting a supernatural apparition): via Old French from Latin visio(n-), from videre 'to see'.

A vision initially referred to a ‘supernatural apparition’; it comes via Old French from Latin from videre ‘to see’. Revise (mid 16th century) originally ‘look again or repeatedly (at)’ is from the same source, as is provide (Late Middle English). Visit (Middle English) is from visare ‘view’ formed from videre while visual (Late Middle English) is from visus ‘sight’, again from videre. See also advice

Rhymes

circumcision, collision, concision, decision, derision, division, elision, envision, excision, imprecision, incision, misprision, precisian, precision, provision, scission

Definition of vision in US English:

vision

nounˈviZHənˈvɪʒən

1The faculty or state of being able to see.
视力；视觉
she had defective vision
她的视力有缺陷。
Example sentencesExamples
- Chloe realized that even though she had perfect vision, she was having a hard time reading.
- He moves the ball about quickly and effectively, and his vision and awareness are second to none.
- A team of researchers exploring the eye's genetic make-up say they may have found a gene able to restore some vision in people who have gone blind.
- Slowness influences not only Franklin's behaviour, but also his vision, his thought and his speech.
- Perception, whether through vision or any other sense, is an acquired taste.
- Some people have an unusually acute sense of vision, hearing, or smell, what psychologists call hyperesthesia.
- She is now completely blind in both eyes but still attends Moorfields Eye Hospital in London and hopes surgeons will one day be able to restore her vision.
- Relaxation is one of the treatments for defective vision.
- In fact most people do not realise there are at least eight different classifications of colour defective vision plus individual variations.
- They have keen hearing and good senses of vision and smell.
- Defective vision due to short sight or long sight can be corrected by wearing spectacles, contact lenses or by LASIK.
- Future treatment will focus on strengthening the left eye and electrical tests to see why her vision is not perfect.
- Humans, once they have been transformed, have a greater sense of smell, better vision, and elevated hearing.
- As the lights grew brighter, and his vision adjusted, Mark was able to make out a figure in the distance, running toward him.
- Those that serve the special senses of smell and vision are purely sensory, and differ from the rest in being essentially extensions of the brain itself.
- I have a sense of vision, taste, hearing and smell.
- In the end, understanding the brain turned out to require understanding vision.
- Soon, I was able to focus my vision and recognized a tall rose garden just outside the elevator exit through the open door of the cab.
- This causes delayed reactions, decreased vision, impaired sensory perception and postural imbalance.
- She carries a comprehensive electronic package in her wheelhouse which gives superb all round vision.
Synonyms
eyesight, sight, power of sight, faculty of sight, ability to see, power of seeing, powers of observation, observation, perception, visual perception
1. 1.1 The images seen on a television screen.
  （电视）图像
  Example sentencesExamples
  The visitors will be able to read a news bulletin or operate the camera, sound, vision desks or autocue.
  The sound is travelling slower than the big screen vision!
  Reading the subtitles takes vision away from the image and allows one to leave the confines of the car.
  We literally had to control all the sound and vision as the continuity announcer would do.
  This is not the usual on screen vision, so you'll have to come along and see what is happening.
  By this time the BBC had moved to using the National Anthem as merely an accompaniment in sound to their revolving globe in vision.
  The bulletin, about the third in 20 minutes, in vision, lasted no more than ten seconds.
  It was not, however, much of an improvement on the radio news, consisting as it did of a series of still images depicting the news being read out of vision.
  Baker did not appear in vision because at that time presenters did not appear on screen.
  The adult education programme, religious service or sports outside broadcast would fade from view and the duty continuity announcer appear in vision.
  Voice-over - The part of a news story when a reporter narrates and vision is shown.
2The ability to think about or plan the future with imagination or wisdom.
眼力；远见
the organization had lost its vision and direction
这个组织已经失去了远见和方向。
Example sentencesExamples
- We need a Council with vision and the ability and willingness to make decisions on the issues presented not the people involved.
- Their vision, imagination, intuition, dream mythology and capacity to play, are all fully formed.
- We set out to be a Government with a clear direction and vision for the future, supported by the broad mainstream of New Zealanders.
- Companies with the right vision can begin planning their future activities along these lines.
- We need a return to foresight and vision to plan for the Basingstoke of 2030.
- Is it DeBeers' worst nightmare or their vision for a sparkly future?
- The wisdom we seek may be better found by enlisting vision and imagination rather than dismissing them.
- He had vision and was able to make things happen.
- Just think what you could achieve with vision, imagination and drive.
- In fact the crown prince's vision and peace plan dovetails nicely with the president's views.
- But in reality language controls us, our vision, our imagination.
- How can we change the terms of political debate to advance our own moral message and vision of a better future?
- Artistic vision, imagination and intuition seem poised in tense opposition to order and rationality.
- Their vision, ability to make things happen, and possible charisma make Directors ideal leaders.
- What is needed is vision and the ability to alter the terms of politics once again.
- A commitment to such action by any government can only be regarded as an unusual act of political vision.
- Slowly but surely with vision, imagination and hard work it began to capture the interest of the reading public.
- The question of the Labor leadership is a question about Labor's future direction and policy vision for Australia.
- The future of such traffic decisions depends on what political vision will prevail.
- After years of talking about their plans and their vision for how the industry could develop, they scraped together enough funds to form a partnership.
Synonyms
imagination, creativity, creative power, inventiveness, innovation, inspiration, intuition, perceptiveness, perception, breadth of view, foresight, insight, far-sightedness, prescience, discernment, awareness, penetration, shrewdness, sharpness, cleverness
1. 2.1 A mental image of what the future will or could be like.
  想像；构想
  a vision of retirement
  Example sentencesExamples
  If the business could not sustain itself, they would not be able to fulfil their vision of making all the world's information easily available to users without charge.
  City's board of directors unveiled their future vision, after revealing details of the deal which means the club can stay at its current home.
  His document looks at the country's declining birth rate and the continuing brain drain and presents an apocalyptic vision of the future in Scotland.
  And this is because of what was not in it - no plan for the future, no vision for Australia, no ideas.
  They also acknowledged his clear plans for the future and his vision for the business and the dairy industry.
  He was the foremost influence on her politics, a man with no party membership but a socialist vision of how society could and should be.
  Utopias hold out for a vision of the future - a vision of how society ought to be.
  If secret societies and weird visions of the future are you cup of tea, drink up.
  Of course we need a long range plan / vision to guide us.
  Their efforts for educational advancement lack clear perception of the present and a flawed vision of the future.
  Instead of his artistic ambitions being welcomed, his plans and his vision were distrusted, or simply misunderstood.
  Deep down, we sense that we'll never be able to attain this vision on our own.
  He also suggested the Greens had a vision of the future that was even more oriented to Maori sovereignty than was Labour's.
  This is the starkest, most distopian vision of a wireless future imaginable.
  Is this a Utopian vision of the leisured society of the future, as liberated by technology?
  Through donations of second-hand equipment and visits by volunteers, Mr Pun was able to turn his vision of a networked Nepal into reality.
  It formally backed the plans of York City Council to create a strategic planning vision for the future of the city.
  The vision includes plans for an annual volunteer week in an effort to increase the numbers of people engaged in voluntary and community activities.
  A candidate must have a vision that voters can believe in and he must be able to convince the voters that he has the ability to see his vision through.
  The new head teacher has a clear vision for the future based on an accurate view of the school's strengths and weaknesses.
  Synonyms
  concept, idea, impression, mental picture, view, image, mental image, visualization, notion, theory, abstraction
3An experience of seeing someone or something in a dream or trance, or as a supernatural apparition.
梦幻；幻觉
the idea came to him in a vision
他于幻觉中得到了那个想法。
Example sentencesExamples
- This is a play where priests are elderly and drunk, old ladies mutter curses and blessings, supernatural visions are everywhere and nobody can open their mouth without uttering a mystical insight.
- This transformation, displayed in haunting dream sequences and eerie visions, makes for some genuinely frightening and heart-stopping moments.
- The first outcome of this is their book, Philosophy of Madness, where six of the club's poets-users talk about their visions, fears, dreams and life.
- These scenes of retrieval of the past are presented as Jones's dreams or hallucinations, half-light phantasmagoric visions.
- While Muldrow's dream visions have an element of danger, more often than not they are beneficial to and symbolic of his practical challenges.
- But Pierre is haunted by a vision in his dreams of a strange, dark-haired peasant woman who attracts him in unexplainable ways.
- While in Auxerre Abbey he experienced a vision in which Saint Germain instructed him to find Selby and build an abbey there.
- Through it, man no longer sees his source reflected in the world, or dreams, visions and voices, but experiences it directly.
- She succeeds, but just as she brings Tom out of his trance he experiences a terrifying vision which send him into a panic.
- From the earliest times, both traditions have learned caution regarding possible visions or apparitions of Christ that do not clearly manifest the five wounds of His passion and death.
- Didn't anyone anywhere else, in any other period of history, experience dreams, visions, prophecies of God?
- Oh, yes, it was having a sweet old time dreaming visions of sugar-plums before we came along.
- Two other actors (Robert Lalonde and Patricia Nolin) do double duty as hospital staff and as apparitions in these nightmarish visions.
- Without the witches, the ghost, the visions, and the apparitions, ‘Macbeth’ would have been a dull and tiresome play.
- The world of dreams, of trances and of visions would have been to them a real and undifferentiated part of their existence.
- The only time that she is able to express herself is when she is talking with the dead or experiencing a vision.
- Fields, an artist from Winston-Salem, N.C., reportedly produces his work while experiencing visions in a trance.
- About a year ago, my military dreams began - intense visions of entrapment and escaping, of being marked in the eye with laser rays, etc.
- Ms Vine and Ms Kitson use trances and visions, clairvoyance, dowsing and psychometry trying to pick up stories in the mind from objects to uncover any paranormal activity.
- As if he had captured his fantastic dreams and visions and put them on canvas, Dalí was a master and a pioneer of the surrealistic movement.
Synonyms
apparition, spectre, phantom, hallucination, ghost, wraith, shadow, manifestation, chimera, illusion, mirage, image
1. 3.1often visions A vivid mental image, especially a fanciful one of the future.
  （尤指对未来的）幻想；梦想
  he had visions of becoming the Elton John of his time
  他幻想成为他那时代的埃尔顿·约翰。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I had visions of a new section at the end of the programme, in which Huw changed into a nice comfy sweater and sat in an armchair while replying to a query from Myrtle in Oxfordshire about her husband's lack of interest in sex.
  My vision is to be able to take the thoughts and data from a dying brain and transfer them into another body without opening the skull.
  I sat there for a very short while but it was too busy to rest easy, and I had visions of swarms of genetically-enhanced bees and wasps rising from the depths of the hedge to descend upon me, stingers to the fore.
  When I found out that I was expecting her I did think about the fact that that's us with a child at home for the next umpteen years, because we had reached the stage where we had visions of child-free weekends.
  I had visions of fillings in all my teeth, long lectures and tellings off about my lack of regular visits, lots of tooth wrenching scraping with the metal thing that would leave my teeth feeling loose for two weeks.
  In the beginning, I had visions of a fabulous, sweeping, Perspex spiral staircase, ignorant of the fact that this would cost about £35,000.
  But when we came home in January my daydreams became very morbid and I constantly had visions of David in great pain, screaming in agony and us being unable to help.
  I've had planters and hanging baskets crying out for plants but the weather has been so awful I had visions of all the little plants being washed away or pelted to death in the one or two hail storms we had.
  My sister, indolent and unimaginative as she was, had visions of endless touch-typing speed trials supervised by austere women under flickering striplights.
  I had visions of him going into a coma, though I'm sure he'd probably just throw up.
  When I was much younger, I had visions of cities in the sky, monorails, jet pack travel, houses that cleaned themselves and yes, flying cars.
  As an Aussie abroad for Christmas, I had visions of myself as an Oliver Twist character, alone, miserable, bereft of friends and family for the festive season.
  When my new baby turned out to be a girl, I had visions of female warriorship for her future.
  ‘Volleyball was his life. He had trials for England and had visions of playing professionally,’ said his father.
  Afterwards, I twitch nervously and experience flashing visions of her rolling her eyes and barking, ‘What business is it of yours?’
  I suddenly had visions of M serving them up for months on end topped with wholemeal flour.
  I suddenly had visions of having to mow around Bruno.
  When she still hadn't reappeared later on this afternoon, I had visions of her having a supersized rocket strapped to her and her being launched skywards, a ball of singed fur and flame.
  He had visions of managing a world-class superstar in the vein of Tom Jones.
  Tow truck came back about an hour later, hooked up the car… after a little panic when his tow rope stopped moving… and I had visions of them having to send out another truck.
  Synonyms
  dream, daydream, reverie, mental picture, conceptualization
4A person or sight of unusual beauty.
美景；美人
Example sentencesExamples
- Instead of piles of brown stew, we got visions of delight.
- It's a delicate and yet demanding film, one that will reward the patient viewer with visions of beauty and despair.
- Yet how was I to walk right by dressed in such a brilliant blue and with such a vision of beauty on my arm?
- He will be ever hovering in our collective soul - a white dove - a vision of beauty and purity.
- The reef provides the vision of beauty; reef science supplies the theoretical links.
- The pure white plumage was reflected perfectly - a shimmering vision of heavenly beauty.
- She was a vision of beauty, almost as good looking as our Kyra.
- A perfect vision of beauty, made everlasting by its creator so many countless years ago.
- And then the man appeared before them - a vision of beauty, he rose out of the river, more water creature than man.
- It means that, whenever we choose, we can allow Best Mate to gallop through our unsullied memories, a vision whose beauty cannot be besmirched.
- Instead, she comes on like a marketing course's dream graduate, a vision in pastel shades, from the pristine hair to the cream suit.
- Television floods our sight with visions of beauty and wealth, whether from America or Russia or Japan - wherever there is power.
- After all, it is perfectly normal, indeed, deeply human to be moved when nature presents us with a vision of great beauty.
- Dressed in a long t-shirt and a pair of cut-offs, she was a vision of beauty.
- And so the grand-stands make a brilliant and wonderful spectacle, a delirium of color, a vision of beauty.
- It was said to be a vision of surreal beauty, though evil beyond a child's wildest dreams.
- Having spent many happy days climbing and scrambling on this mountain I can think of scores of views that would present a majestic vision of natures beauty.
- Just last night it was a vision of beauty awaiting Santa's arrival.
- There are only so many times we can look at the directors vision of ideal beauty through a soft focus and not get annoyed.
- In life, the girl is disfigured and disabled but after death she is turned into a vision of health and beauty.
Synonyms
beautiful sight, vision of loveliness, feast for the eyes, pleasure to behold, delight, dream, beauty, spectacle, picture, joy, marvel, sensation

verbˈviZHənˈvɪʒən

[with object]rare

Imagine.
〈罕〉想像
Example sentencesExamples
- He was visioning the scene at the airport with Vivian.
- So I hit ‘play’ and filled the car with pipe music, visioning the brave sounds echoing about the hills.
- One chapter, darkly visioning Conrad's clinch with his dead ex-partner's mother, is remarkable and truly shocking.
- Her stomach lurched as she visioned her father in that mess.
- The ‘mock ‘attempts of suicide may be a similar form of fantasy, where the loved ones are visioned as standing around the hospital bed and they are finally able to realize how unbearable the pain of life was for us.’

Origin

Middle English (denoting a supernatural apparition): via Old French from Latin visio(n-), from videre ‘to see’.

词汇	vision
释义	Definition of vision in English: vision noun ˈvɪʒ(ə)nˈvɪʒən 1mass noun The faculty or state of being able to see. 视力；视觉 she had defective vision 她的视力有缺陷。 Example sentencesExamples Future treatment will focus on strengthening the left eye and electrical tests to see why her vision is not perfect. She is now completely blind in both eyes but still attends Moorfields Eye Hospital in London and hopes surgeons will one day be able to restore her vision. Chloe realized that even though she had perfect vision, she was having a hard time reading. Those that serve the special senses of smell and vision are purely sensory, and differ from the rest in being essentially extensions of the brain itself. Defective vision due to short sight or long sight can be corrected by wearing spectacles, contact lenses or by LASIK. Perception, whether through vision or any other sense, is an acquired taste. They have keen hearing and good senses of vision and smell. As the lights grew brighter, and his vision adjusted, Mark was able to make out a figure in the distance, running toward him. Slowness influences not only Franklin's behaviour, but also his vision, his thought and his speech. Soon, I was able to focus my vision and recognized a tall rose garden just outside the elevator exit through the open door of the cab. A team of researchers exploring the eye's genetic make-up say they may have found a gene able to restore some vision in people who have gone blind. In fact most people do not realise there are at least eight different classifications of colour defective vision plus individual variations. Relaxation is one of the treatments for defective vision. I have a sense of vision, taste, hearing and smell. He moves the ball about quickly and effectively, and his vision and awareness are second to none. Some people have an unusually acute sense of vision, hearing, or smell, what psychologists call hyperesthesia. Humans, once they have been transformed, have a greater sense of smell, better vision, and elevated hearing. She carries a comprehensive electronic package in her wheelhouse which gives superb all round vision. In the end, understanding the brain turned out to require understanding vision. This causes delayed reactions, decreased vision, impaired sensory perception and postural imbalance. Synonyms eyesight, sight, power of sight, faculty of sight, ability to see, power of seeing, powers of observation, observation, perception, visual perception eyes field of vision, view, perspective 1.1 The images seen on a television screen. （电视）图像 the box converts the digital signal into sound and vision on an ordinary TV Example sentencesExamples The sound is travelling slower than the big screen vision! We literally had to control all the sound and vision as the continuity announcer would do. It was not, however, much of an improvement on the radio news, consisting as it did of a series of still images depicting the news being read out of vision. This is not the usual on screen vision, so you'll have to come along and see what is happening. The adult education programme, religious service or sports outside broadcast would fade from view and the duty continuity announcer appear in vision. Voice-over - The part of a news story when a reporter narrates and vision is shown. The bulletin, about the third in 20 minutes, in vision, lasted no more than ten seconds. Reading the subtitles takes vision away from the image and allows one to leave the confines of the car. By this time the BBC had moved to using the National Anthem as merely an accompaniment in sound to their revolving globe in vision. Baker did not appear in vision because at that time presenters did not appear on screen. The visitors will be able to read a news bulletin or operate the camera, sound, vision desks or autocue. 2mass noun The ability to think about or plan the future with imagination or wisdom. 眼力；远见 the organization had lost its vision and direction 这个组织已经失去了远见和方向。 Example sentencesExamples How can we change the terms of political debate to advance our own moral message and vision of a better future? A commitment to such action by any government can only be regarded as an unusual act of political vision. Artistic vision, imagination and intuition seem poised in tense opposition to order and rationality. We set out to be a Government with a clear direction and vision for the future, supported by the broad mainstream of New Zealanders. After years of talking about their plans and their vision for how the industry could develop, they scraped together enough funds to form a partnership. Their vision, imagination, intuition, dream mythology and capacity to play, are all fully formed. Just think what you could achieve with vision, imagination and drive. We need a return to foresight and vision to plan for the Basingstoke of 2030. In fact the crown prince's vision and peace plan dovetails nicely with the president's views. The wisdom we seek may be better found by enlisting vision and imagination rather than dismissing them. But in reality language controls us, our vision, our imagination. We need a Council with vision and the ability and willingness to make decisions on the issues presented not the people involved. What is needed is vision and the ability to alter the terms of politics once again. The future of such traffic decisions depends on what political vision will prevail. The question of the Labor leadership is a question about Labor's future direction and policy vision for Australia. Is it DeBeers' worst nightmare or their vision for a sparkly future? Their vision, ability to make things happen, and possible charisma make Directors ideal leaders. Slowly but surely with vision, imagination and hard work it began to capture the interest of the reading public. Companies with the right vision can begin planning their future activities along these lines. He had vision and was able to make things happen. Synonyms imagination, creativity, creative power, inventiveness, innovation, inspiration, intuition, perceptiveness, perception, breadth of view, foresight, insight, far-sightedness, prescience, discernment, awareness, penetration, shrewdness, sharpness, cleverness 2.1count noun A mental image of what the future will or could be like. 想像；构想 a utopian vision of society 社会主义者对社会的构想。 Example sentencesExamples This is the starkest, most distopian vision of a wireless future imaginable. Deep down, we sense that we'll never be able to attain this vision on our own. If secret societies and weird visions of the future are you cup of tea, drink up. Utopias hold out for a vision of the future - a vision of how society ought to be. Their efforts for educational advancement lack clear perception of the present and a flawed vision of the future. A candidate must have a vision that voters can believe in and he must be able to convince the voters that he has the ability to see his vision through. The vision includes plans for an annual volunteer week in an effort to increase the numbers of people engaged in voluntary and community activities. Through donations of second-hand equipment and visits by volunteers, Mr Pun was able to turn his vision of a networked Nepal into reality. His document looks at the country's declining birth rate and the continuing brain drain and presents an apocalyptic vision of the future in Scotland. Is this a Utopian vision of the leisured society of the future, as liberated by technology? City's board of directors unveiled their future vision, after revealing details of the deal which means the club can stay at its current home. He was the foremost influence on her politics, a man with no party membership but a socialist vision of how society could and should be. And this is because of what was not in it - no plan for the future, no vision for Australia, no ideas. They also acknowledged his clear plans for the future and his vision for the business and the dairy industry. If the business could not sustain itself, they would not be able to fulfil their vision of making all the world's information easily available to users without charge. Instead of his artistic ambitions being welcomed, his plans and his vision were distrusted, or simply misunderstood. The new head teacher has a clear vision for the future based on an accurate view of the school's strengths and weaknesses. Of course we need a long range plan / vision to guide us. He also suggested the Greens had a vision of the future that was even more oriented to Maori sovereignty than was Labour's. It formally backed the plans of York City Council to create a strategic planning vision for the future of the city. Synonyms concept, idea, impression, mental picture, view, image, mental image, visualization, notion, theory, abstraction 3An experience of seeing someone or something in a dream or trance, or as a supernatural apparition. 梦幻；幻觉 the idea came to him in a vision 他于幻觉中得到了那个想法。 Example sentencesExamples The first outcome of this is their book, Philosophy of Madness, where six of the club's poets-users talk about their visions, fears, dreams and life. While Muldrow's dream visions have an element of danger, more often than not they are beneficial to and symbolic of his practical challenges. Didn't anyone anywhere else, in any other period of history, experience dreams, visions, prophecies of God? These scenes of retrieval of the past are presented as Jones's dreams or hallucinations, half-light phantasmagoric visions. About a year ago, my military dreams began - intense visions of entrapment and escaping, of being marked in the eye with laser rays, etc. Two other actors (Robert Lalonde and Patricia Nolin) do double duty as hospital staff and as apparitions in these nightmarish visions. This transformation, displayed in haunting dream sequences and eerie visions, makes for some genuinely frightening and heart-stopping moments. The world of dreams, of trances and of visions would have been to them a real and undifferentiated part of their existence. She succeeds, but just as she brings Tom out of his trance he experiences a terrifying vision which send him into a panic. The only time that she is able to express herself is when she is talking with the dead or experiencing a vision. As if he had captured his fantastic dreams and visions and put them on canvas, Dalí was a master and a pioneer of the surrealistic movement. Oh, yes, it was having a sweet old time dreaming visions of sugar-plums before we came along. This is a play where priests are elderly and drunk, old ladies mutter curses and blessings, supernatural visions are everywhere and nobody can open their mouth without uttering a mystical insight. Fields, an artist from Winston-Salem, N.C., reportedly produces his work while experiencing visions in a trance. Ms Vine and Ms Kitson use trances and visions, clairvoyance, dowsing and psychometry trying to pick up stories in the mind from objects to uncover any paranormal activity. Without the witches, the ghost, the visions, and the apparitions, ‘Macbeth’ would have been a dull and tiresome play. Through it, man no longer sees his source reflected in the world, or dreams, visions and voices, but experiences it directly. While in Auxerre Abbey he experienced a vision in which Saint Germain instructed him to find Selby and build an abbey there. But Pierre is haunted by a vision in his dreams of a strange, dark-haired peasant woman who attracts him in unexplainable ways. From the earliest times, both traditions have learned caution regarding possible visions or apparitions of Christ that do not clearly manifest the five wounds of His passion and death. Synonyms apparition, spectre, phantom, hallucination, ghost, wraith, shadow, manifestation, chimera, illusion, mirage, image Scottish &amp Irish bodach West Indian duppy informal spook literary phantasm, shade, revenant, wight, visitant rare eidolon, manes 3.1often visions A vivid mental image, especially a fanciful one of the future. （尤指对未来的）幻想；梦想 he had visions of becoming the Elton John of his time 他幻想成为他那时代的埃尔顿·约翰。 Example sentencesExamples Tow truck came back about an hour later, hooked up the car… after a little panic when his tow rope stopped moving… and I had visions of them having to send out another truck. I sat there for a very short while but it was too busy to rest easy, and I had visions of swarms of genetically-enhanced bees and wasps rising from the depths of the hedge to descend upon me, stingers to the fore. Afterwards, I twitch nervously and experience flashing visions of her rolling her eyes and barking, ‘What business is it of yours?’ When I found out that I was expecting her I did think about the fact that that's us with a child at home for the next umpteen years, because we had reached the stage where we had visions of child-free weekends. As an Aussie abroad for Christmas, I had visions of myself as an Oliver Twist character, alone, miserable, bereft of friends and family for the festive season. But when we came home in January my daydreams became very morbid and I constantly had visions of David in great pain, screaming in agony and us being unable to help. I had visions of him going into a coma, though I'm sure he'd probably just throw up. I had visions of fillings in all my teeth, long lectures and tellings off about my lack of regular visits, lots of tooth wrenching scraping with the metal thing that would leave my teeth feeling loose for two weeks. ‘Volleyball was his life. He had trials for England and had visions of playing professionally,’ said his father. I suddenly had visions of having to mow around Bruno. When my new baby turned out to be a girl, I had visions of female warriorship for her future. I've had planters and hanging baskets crying out for plants but the weather has been so awful I had visions of all the little plants being washed away or pelted to death in the one or two hail storms we had. I suddenly had visions of M serving them up for months on end topped with wholemeal flour. My sister, indolent and unimaginative as she was, had visions of endless touch-typing speed trials supervised by austere women under flickering striplights. When she still hadn't reappeared later on this afternoon, I had visions of her having a supersized rocket strapped to her and her being launched skywards, a ball of singed fur and flame. I had visions of a new section at the end of the programme, in which Huw changed into a nice comfy sweater and sat in an armchair while replying to a query from Myrtle in Oxfordshire about her husband's lack of interest in sex. When I was much younger, I had visions of cities in the sky, monorails, jet pack travel, houses that cleaned themselves and yes, flying cars. In the beginning, I had visions of a fabulous, sweeping, Perspex spiral staircase, ignorant of the fact that this would cost about £35,000. He had visions of managing a world-class superstar in the vein of Tom Jones. My vision is to be able to take the thoughts and data from a dying brain and transfer them into another body without opening the skull. Synonyms dream, daydream, reverie, mental picture, conceptualization plans, hopes fantasy, fancy, flight of fancy, fanciful notion, pipe dream, delusion, figment of the imagination, prospect 4A person or sight of unusual beauty. 美景；美人 madame was a vision in black velvet Example sentencesExamples And then the man appeared before them - a vision of beauty, he rose out of the river, more water creature than man. Yet how was I to walk right by dressed in such a brilliant blue and with such a vision of beauty on my arm? Instead, she comes on like a marketing course's dream graduate, a vision in pastel shades, from the pristine hair to the cream suit. Having spent many happy days climbing and scrambling on this mountain I can think of scores of views that would present a majestic vision of natures beauty. Television floods our sight with visions of beauty and wealth, whether from America or Russia or Japan - wherever there is power. After all, it is perfectly normal, indeed, deeply human to be moved when nature presents us with a vision of great beauty. And so the grand-stands make a brilliant and wonderful spectacle, a delirium of color, a vision of beauty. It means that, whenever we choose, we can allow Best Mate to gallop through our unsullied memories, a vision whose beauty cannot be besmirched. Just last night it was a vision of beauty awaiting Santa's arrival. In life, the girl is disfigured and disabled but after death she is turned into a vision of health and beauty. The pure white plumage was reflected perfectly - a shimmering vision of heavenly beauty. There are only so many times we can look at the directors vision of ideal beauty through a soft focus and not get annoyed. She was a vision of beauty, almost as good looking as our Kyra. He will be ever hovering in our collective soul - a white dove - a vision of beauty and purity. It's a delicate and yet demanding film, one that will reward the patient viewer with visions of beauty and despair. A perfect vision of beauty, made everlasting by its creator so many countless years ago. It was said to be a vision of surreal beauty, though evil beyond a child's wildest dreams. Instead of piles of brown stew, we got visions of delight. Dressed in a long t-shirt and a pair of cut-offs, she was a vision of beauty. The reef provides the vision of beauty; reef science supplies the theoretical links. Synonyms beautiful sight, vision of loveliness, feast for the eyes, pleasure to behold, delight, dream, beauty, spectacle, picture, joy, marvel, sensation informal sight for sore eyes, eyeful, stunner, cracker, smasher, knockout, looker, good-looker, bobby-dazzler, peach, honey verb ˈvɪʒ(ə)nˈvɪʒən [with object]rare Imagine. 〈罕〉想像 we visioned a small lawn surrounded with a perfect tangle of trees Example sentencesExamples The ‘mock ‘attempts of suicide may be a similar form of fantasy, where the loved ones are visioned as standing around the hospital bed and they are finally able to realize how unbearable the pain of life was for us.’ So I hit ‘play’ and filled the car with pipe music, visioning the brave sounds echoing about the hills. One chapter, darkly visioning Conrad's clinch with his dead ex-partner's mother, is remarkable and truly shocking. Her stomach lurched as she visioned her father in that mess. He was visioning the scene at the airport with Vivian. Derivatives visional adjective ˈvɪʒ(ə)n(ə)lˈvɪʒ(ə)n(ə)l When the proportion of stimulating three kinds of optic cone cells is changed externally, the codes of visional area of cerebral cortex are changed and thus the ability of discrimination between two color objects is improved. Example sentencesExamples After the training course, Phuc realised that computer is the tool to help visional impaired people to integrate into the society. We are a specialty optometric practice dedicated to providing visional evaluation and development through vision therapy. visionless adjective In the country of the visionless, the blind man is king. Example sentencesExamples I have to admit that, when the architecture for returning to the Moon was unveiled, the thought that the last three decades of human spaceflight were a visionless mistake crossed my mind. I would like to suggest to you that the allegation that non-traditional churches are visionless and that they do not add to nation building is false. I have dismally observed that our youth organizations are myopic, lethargic, and visionless in facing these challenges. I fear anything that comes out of today's flurry of diplomacy will just be a band-aid solution, typical of this inward-looking, negative, visionless government. Origin Middle English (denoting a supernatural apparition): via Old French from Latin visio(n-), from videre 'to see'. A vision initially referred to a ‘supernatural apparition’; it comes via Old French from Latin from videre ‘to see’. Revise (mid 16th century) originally ‘look again or repeatedly (at)’ is from the same source, as is provide (Late Middle English). Visit (Middle English) is from visare ‘view’ formed from videre while visual (Late Middle English) is from visus ‘sight’, again from videre. See also advice Rhymes circumcision, collision, concision, decision, derision, division, elision, envision, excision, imprecision, incision, misprision, precisian, precision, provision, scission Definition of vision in US English: vision nounˈviZHənˈvɪʒən 1The faculty or state of being able to see. 视力；视觉 she had defective vision 她的视力有缺陷。 Example sentencesExamples Chloe realized that even though she had perfect vision, she was having a hard time reading. He moves the ball about quickly and effectively, and his vision and awareness are second to none. A team of researchers exploring the eye's genetic make-up say they may have found a gene able to restore some vision in people who have gone blind. Slowness influences not only Franklin's behaviour, but also his vision, his thought and his speech. Perception, whether through vision or any other sense, is an acquired taste. Some people have an unusually acute sense of vision, hearing, or smell, what psychologists call hyperesthesia. She is now completely blind in both eyes but still attends Moorfields Eye Hospital in London and hopes surgeons will one day be able to restore her vision. Relaxation is one of the treatments for defective vision. In fact most people do not realise there are at least eight different classifications of colour defective vision plus individual variations. They have keen hearing and good senses of vision and smell. Defective vision due to short sight or long sight can be corrected by wearing spectacles, contact lenses or by LASIK. Future treatment will focus on strengthening the left eye and electrical tests to see why her vision is not perfect. Humans, once they have been transformed, have a greater sense of smell, better vision, and elevated hearing. As the lights grew brighter, and his vision adjusted, Mark was able to make out a figure in the distance, running toward him. Those that serve the special senses of smell and vision are purely sensory, and differ from the rest in being essentially extensions of the brain itself. I have a sense of vision, taste, hearing and smell. In the end, understanding the brain turned out to require understanding vision. Soon, I was able to focus my vision and recognized a tall rose garden just outside the elevator exit through the open door of the cab. This causes delayed reactions, decreased vision, impaired sensory perception and postural imbalance. She carries a comprehensive electronic package in her wheelhouse which gives superb all round vision. Synonyms eyesight, sight, power of sight, faculty of sight, ability to see, power of seeing, powers of observation, observation, perception, visual perception 1.1 The images seen on a television screen. （电视）图像 Example sentencesExamples The visitors will be able to read a news bulletin or operate the camera, sound, vision desks or autocue. The sound is travelling slower than the big screen vision! Reading the subtitles takes vision away from the image and allows one to leave the confines of the car. We literally had to control all the sound and vision as the continuity announcer would do. This is not the usual on screen vision, so you'll have to come along and see what is happening. By this time the BBC had moved to using the National Anthem as merely an accompaniment in sound to their revolving globe in vision. The bulletin, about the third in 20 minutes, in vision, lasted no more than ten seconds. It was not, however, much of an improvement on the radio news, consisting as it did of a series of still images depicting the news being read out of vision. Baker did not appear in vision because at that time presenters did not appear on screen. The adult education programme, religious service or sports outside broadcast would fade from view and the duty continuity announcer appear in vision. Voice-over - The part of a news story when a reporter narrates and vision is shown. 2The ability to think about or plan the future with imagination or wisdom. 眼力；远见 the organization had lost its vision and direction 这个组织已经失去了远见和方向。 Example sentencesExamples We need a Council with vision and the ability and willingness to make decisions on the issues presented not the people involved. Their vision, imagination, intuition, dream mythology and capacity to play, are all fully formed. We set out to be a Government with a clear direction and vision for the future, supported by the broad mainstream of New Zealanders. Companies with the right vision can begin planning their future activities along these lines. We need a return to foresight and vision to plan for the Basingstoke of 2030. Is it DeBeers' worst nightmare or their vision for a sparkly future? The wisdom we seek may be better found by enlisting vision and imagination rather than dismissing them. He had vision and was able to make things happen. Just think what you could achieve with vision, imagination and drive. In fact the crown prince's vision and peace plan dovetails nicely with the president's views. But in reality language controls us, our vision, our imagination. How can we change the terms of political debate to advance our own moral message and vision of a better future? Artistic vision, imagination and intuition seem poised in tense opposition to order and rationality. Their vision, ability to make things happen, and possible charisma make Directors ideal leaders. What is needed is vision and the ability to alter the terms of politics once again. A commitment to such action by any government can only be regarded as an unusual act of political vision. Slowly but surely with vision, imagination and hard work it began to capture the interest of the reading public. The question of the Labor leadership is a question about Labor's future direction and policy vision for Australia. The future of such traffic decisions depends on what political vision will prevail. After years of talking about their plans and their vision for how the industry could develop, they scraped together enough funds to form a partnership. Synonyms imagination, creativity, creative power, inventiveness, innovation, inspiration, intuition, perceptiveness, perception, breadth of view, foresight, insight, far-sightedness, prescience, discernment, awareness, penetration, shrewdness, sharpness, cleverness 2.1 A mental image of what the future will or could be like. 想像；构想 a vision of retirement Example sentencesExamples If the business could not sustain itself, they would not be able to fulfil their vision of making all the world's information easily available to users without charge. City's board of directors unveiled their future vision, after revealing details of the deal which means the club can stay at its current home. His document looks at the country's declining birth rate and the continuing brain drain and presents an apocalyptic vision of the future in Scotland. And this is because of what was not in it - no plan for the future, no vision for Australia, no ideas. They also acknowledged his clear plans for the future and his vision for the business and the dairy industry. He was the foremost influence on her politics, a man with no party membership but a socialist vision of how society could and should be. Utopias hold out for a vision of the future - a vision of how society ought to be. If secret societies and weird visions of the future are you cup of tea, drink up. Of course we need a long range plan / vision to guide us. Their efforts for educational advancement lack clear perception of the present and a flawed vision of the future. Instead of his artistic ambitions being welcomed, his plans and his vision were distrusted, or simply misunderstood. Deep down, we sense that we'll never be able to attain this vision on our own. He also suggested the Greens had a vision of the future that was even more oriented to Maori sovereignty than was Labour's. This is the starkest, most distopian vision of a wireless future imaginable. Is this a Utopian vision of the leisured society of the future, as liberated by technology? Through donations of second-hand equipment and visits by volunteers, Mr Pun was able to turn his vision of a networked Nepal into reality. It formally backed the plans of York City Council to create a strategic planning vision for the future of the city. The vision includes plans for an annual volunteer week in an effort to increase the numbers of people engaged in voluntary and community activities. A candidate must have a vision that voters can believe in and he must be able to convince the voters that he has the ability to see his vision through. The new head teacher has a clear vision for the future based on an accurate view of the school's strengths and weaknesses. Synonyms concept, idea, impression, mental picture, view, image, mental image, visualization, notion, theory, abstraction 3An experience of seeing someone or something in a dream or trance, or as a supernatural apparition. 梦幻；幻觉 the idea came to him in a vision 他于幻觉中得到了那个想法。 Example sentencesExamples This is a play where priests are elderly and drunk, old ladies mutter curses and blessings, supernatural visions are everywhere and nobody can open their mouth without uttering a mystical insight. This transformation, displayed in haunting dream sequences and eerie visions, makes for some genuinely frightening and heart-stopping moments. The first outcome of this is their book, Philosophy of Madness, where six of the club's poets-users talk about their visions, fears, dreams and life. These scenes of retrieval of the past are presented as Jones's dreams or hallucinations, half-light phantasmagoric visions. While Muldrow's dream visions have an element of danger, more often than not they are beneficial to and symbolic of his practical challenges. But Pierre is haunted by a vision in his dreams of a strange, dark-haired peasant woman who attracts him in unexplainable ways. While in Auxerre Abbey he experienced a vision in which Saint Germain instructed him to find Selby and build an abbey there. Through it, man no longer sees his source reflected in the world, or dreams, visions and voices, but experiences it directly. She succeeds, but just as she brings Tom out of his trance he experiences a terrifying vision which send him into a panic. From the earliest times, both traditions have learned caution regarding possible visions or apparitions of Christ that do not clearly manifest the five wounds of His passion and death. Didn't anyone anywhere else, in any other period of history, experience dreams, visions, prophecies of God? Oh, yes, it was having a sweet old time dreaming visions of sugar-plums before we came along. Two other actors (Robert Lalonde and Patricia Nolin) do double duty as hospital staff and as apparitions in these nightmarish visions. Without the witches, the ghost, the visions, and the apparitions, ‘Macbeth’ would have been a dull and tiresome play. The world of dreams, of trances and of visions would have been to them a real and undifferentiated part of their existence. The only time that she is able to express herself is when she is talking with the dead or experiencing a vision. Fields, an artist from Winston-Salem, N.C., reportedly produces his work while experiencing visions in a trance. About a year ago, my military dreams began - intense visions of entrapment and escaping, of being marked in the eye with laser rays, etc. Ms Vine and Ms Kitson use trances and visions, clairvoyance, dowsing and psychometry trying to pick up stories in the mind from objects to uncover any paranormal activity. As if he had captured his fantastic dreams and visions and put them on canvas, Dalí was a master and a pioneer of the surrealistic movement. Synonyms apparition, spectre, phantom, hallucination, ghost, wraith, shadow, manifestation, chimera, illusion, mirage, image 3.1often visions A vivid mental image, especially a fanciful one of the future. （尤指对未来的）幻想；梦想 he had visions of becoming the Elton John of his time 他幻想成为他那时代的埃尔顿·约翰。 Example sentencesExamples I had visions of a new section at the end of the programme, in which Huw changed into a nice comfy sweater and sat in an armchair while replying to a query from Myrtle in Oxfordshire about her husband's lack of interest in sex. My vision is to be able to take the thoughts and data from a dying brain and transfer them into another body without opening the skull. I sat there for a very short while but it was too busy to rest easy, and I had visions of swarms of genetically-enhanced bees and wasps rising from the depths of the hedge to descend upon me, stingers to the fore. When I found out that I was expecting her I did think about the fact that that's us with a child at home for the next umpteen years, because we had reached the stage where we had visions of child-free weekends. I had visions of fillings in all my teeth, long lectures and tellings off about my lack of regular visits, lots of tooth wrenching scraping with the metal thing that would leave my teeth feeling loose for two weeks. In the beginning, I had visions of a fabulous, sweeping, Perspex spiral staircase, ignorant of the fact that this would cost about £35,000. But when we came home in January my daydreams became very morbid and I constantly had visions of David in great pain, screaming in agony and us being unable to help. I've had planters and hanging baskets crying out for plants but the weather has been so awful I had visions of all the little plants being washed away or pelted to death in the one or two hail storms we had. My sister, indolent and unimaginative as she was, had visions of endless touch-typing speed trials supervised by austere women under flickering striplights. I had visions of him going into a coma, though I'm sure he'd probably just throw up. When I was much younger, I had visions of cities in the sky, monorails, jet pack travel, houses that cleaned themselves and yes, flying cars. As an Aussie abroad for Christmas, I had visions of myself as an Oliver Twist character, alone, miserable, bereft of friends and family for the festive season. When my new baby turned out to be a girl, I had visions of female warriorship for her future. ‘Volleyball was his life. He had trials for England and had visions of playing professionally,’ said his father. Afterwards, I twitch nervously and experience flashing visions of her rolling her eyes and barking, ‘What business is it of yours?’ I suddenly had visions of M serving them up for months on end topped with wholemeal flour. I suddenly had visions of having to mow around Bruno. When she still hadn't reappeared later on this afternoon, I had visions of her having a supersized rocket strapped to her and her being launched skywards, a ball of singed fur and flame. He had visions of managing a world-class superstar in the vein of Tom Jones. Tow truck came back about an hour later, hooked up the car… after a little panic when his tow rope stopped moving… and I had visions of them having to send out another truck. Synonyms dream, daydream, reverie, mental picture, conceptualization 4A person or sight of unusual beauty. 美景；美人 Example sentencesExamples Instead of piles of brown stew, we got visions of delight. It's a delicate and yet demanding film, one that will reward the patient viewer with visions of beauty and despair. Yet how was I to walk right by dressed in such a brilliant blue and with such a vision of beauty on my arm? He will be ever hovering in our collective soul - a white dove - a vision of beauty and purity. The reef provides the vision of beauty; reef science supplies the theoretical links. The pure white plumage was reflected perfectly - a shimmering vision of heavenly beauty. She was a vision of beauty, almost as good looking as our Kyra. A perfect vision of beauty, made everlasting by its creator so many countless years ago. And then the man appeared before them - a vision of beauty, he rose out of the river, more water creature than man. It means that, whenever we choose, we can allow Best Mate to gallop through our unsullied memories, a vision whose beauty cannot be besmirched. Instead, she comes on like a marketing course's dream graduate, a vision in pastel shades, from the pristine hair to the cream suit. Television floods our sight with visions of beauty and wealth, whether from America or Russia or Japan - wherever there is power. After all, it is perfectly normal, indeed, deeply human to be moved when nature presents us with a vision of great beauty. Dressed in a long t-shirt and a pair of cut-offs, she was a vision of beauty. And so the grand-stands make a brilliant and wonderful spectacle, a delirium of color, a vision of beauty. It was said to be a vision of surreal beauty, though evil beyond a child's wildest dreams. Having spent many happy days climbing and scrambling on this mountain I can think of scores of views that would present a majestic vision of natures beauty. Just last night it was a vision of beauty awaiting Santa's arrival. There are only so many times we can look at the directors vision of ideal beauty through a soft focus and not get annoyed. In life, the girl is disfigured and disabled but after death she is turned into a vision of health and beauty. Synonyms beautiful sight, vision of loveliness, feast for the eyes, pleasure to behold, delight, dream, beauty, spectacle, picture, joy, marvel, sensation verbˈviZHənˈvɪʒən [with object]rare Imagine. 〈罕〉想像 Example sentencesExamples He was visioning the scene at the airport with Vivian. So I hit ‘play’ and filled the car with pipe music, visioning the brave sounds echoing about the hills. One chapter, darkly visioning Conrad's clinch with his dead ex-partner's mother, is remarkable and truly shocking. Her stomach lurched as she visioned her father in that mess. The ‘mock ‘attempts of suicide may be a similar form of fantasy, where the loved ones are visioned as standing around the hospital bed and they are finally able to realize how unbearable the pain of life was for us.’ Origin Middle English (denoting a supernatural apparition): via Old French from Latin visio(n-), from videre ‘to see’.
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