詞彙精選:conceive的用法和辨析
一、詳細釋義:
v.
懷孕 [I,T]
例句:
Women, he says, should give up alcohol before they plan to conceive.
他説女性在計劃懷孕之前應該戒酒。
例句:
About one in six couples has difficulty conceiving.
大約1/6的夫妻有受孕困難。
想像 [I,T]
例句:
It's difficult to conceive of travelling to the moon.
到月球去旅行是很難想像的。
例句:
I cannot conceive of such a thing as genoa in ruins.
我想象不出熱那亞變成廢墟的事情。
持有 [I,T]
例句:
He seems to have conceived an abject, unreasoned terror of the railroad.
他好象對鐵路公司持有一種意氣消沉、不可理喻的恐懼心理。
例句:
He conceived of an idea and believed that it existed or should exist.
他持有一個理想,相信它已經存在或者應該存在。
認為,以為 [T]
例句:
The ancients conceived the earth as afloat in water.
古人認為地球飄浮在水裏。
例句:
We conceive of the family as being in a constant state of change.
我們認為家庭處於不斷變化之中。
構思,設想,考慮 [I,T]
例句:
She had conceived the idea of a series of novels.
她萌生出撰寫系列小説的想法。
例句:
He conceived of the first truly portable computer in 1968.
1968年,他構想出第一台真正的便攜式計算機。
二、詞義辨析:
devise,conceive,formulate
這些動詞的均含“設計、設想”之意。devise側重設計的臨時性和權宜性,並隱含有更多的設想可用。conceive強調在制定計劃之前的先有設想構思。formulate與conceive相反,指在devise之後的具體設計活動。
三、詞義辨析:
think,conceive,imagine,fancy,realize
這些動詞均可表示“在思想中形成一個看法或觀念”之意。 think最普通用詞,指想或思索,也指由反覆思考而作出判斷或得出結論等。conceive指在頭腦中組織好自己的思想,在心中形成一個系統的思想或一個見解。imagine比conceive更強調形象思維,指在頭腦中形成一個清晰明確的意象。fancy與imagine略不同,往往指的是不切實際的,屬於夢幻般的想象。 realize指領悟,通過生動的構思或想象從而抓住事物的本質。
四、相關短語:
conceive of
想象,設想
一、參考例句:
Can you conceive of a complete vacuum?
你能想象出完全真空的情形嗎?
I can hardly conceive of your doing such a thing.
我很難想象你會做出這種事情。
We can't conceive of living without a telephone.
我們簡直設想不出沒有電話人怎麼活下去。
I cannot conceive where he came up with that idea.
我想不出他是怎麼想到這個主意的。
I can't conceive of anything funnier than that.
我想不出有比那更有趣的東西。
It's difficult to conceive of travelling to the moon.
到月球去旅行是很難想像的。
Giraffe females can conceive while still feeding their young infant.
雌性長頸鹿在哺育小長頸鹿的時候也會懷孕。
I cannot conceive why you allowed the child to go alone.
我真想不通你為什麼讓孩子一個人走。
I cannot conceive of such a thing as genoa in ruins.
我想象不出熱那亞變成廢墟的事情。
These terms don’t map well to how users conceive of time.
這些術語和用户對時間的理解沒有很好的映射關係。