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1 cannot figure out

2 to be unable to take a lighter view

3 to take things too hard

4 to be depressed

5 to fret over trifles

1 too horrible to contemplate

2 unthinkable

3 inconceivable

1 unexpected

2 hard to imagine

3 it had not occurred to me

4 who could have thought that

1 unable to understand

2 unable to get over

1 unexpected

2 previously unimagined

1 unexpectedly

1 notional diagram (i.e. made-up picture or artist's impression for news story)

1 to think hard (idiom)

2 to give sth much thought

1 with the same idea in mind

2 with a common purpose

1 lit. to lead the life of a whore but still want a monument put up to one's chastity (idiom)

2 fig. to have bad intentions but still want a good reputation

3 to want to have one's cake and eat it too

1 tentative idea

1 system of thought

2 ideology

1 to take sth for granted

1 ideal state

2 utopia

1 intellectual history

1 to yearn for sth day and night (idiom)

1 to imagine the wildest thing

2 to indulge in fantasy

1 consciousness

1 to consider past cause and future effect (idiom); to think over the past and future

2 to ponder over reasons and connection