They use puppets to capture the imagination of younger audiences.

他们用木偶来启发小观众的想象力。

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Few creations of big technology capture the imagination like giant dams.

在大型技术的创造中，很少有能像大型水坝那样激发人们的想象力。

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Oral poetry was not simply a way of telling lovely or important stories, or of flexing the imagination.

口头诗歌不仅仅是一种讲述美好或重要故事的方式，也不只是一种展现想象力的方式。

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Adair's success with the "Devil's Cigarette Lighter" and earlier well fires captured the imagination of the American film industry.

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I'm going to do that at the end for this reason: that it has such a special place in the imagination of our culture.

但是现在我放到最后讲是因为：,它在提供我们文化的想象力方面地位如此特殊。

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You have to find out what "pulls up" means in the same way that the adult reader of Pleasures of the Imagination has to find out what "plastic" means.

我们得找出“停下来“究竟是什么意思,正如读《想象的愉悦》的大人,需要找到“塑料“的意思。

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Stories are a potent force for building community, capturing the imagination, and exerting influence.

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By contrast, telling a story can spark the imagination and generate creativity, interaction and transformation.

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In fact Germany, although doing well, isn't booming by any stretch of the imagination.

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