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 conception [kən'sɛpʃən]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 观念, 概念

[医] 妊娠, 受孕; 概念


  1. He's got a pretty strange conception of friendship.
    他对友谊有一种非常独特的见解。
  2. You have no conception of what it was like to be there.
    你完全不知道在那里是什么滋味。
  3. I have no conception of what you mean.
    我想不出你的意思是什么。


conception
[ noun ]
  1. an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances

  2. <noun.cognition>
  3. the act of becoming pregnant; fertilization of an ovum by a spermatozoon

  4. <noun.act>
  5. the event that occurred at the beginning of something

  6. <noun.event>
    from its creation the plan was doomed to failure
  7. the creation of something in the mind

  8. <noun.cognition>


Conception \Con*cep"tion\, n. [F. conception, L. conceptio, fr.
concipere to conceive. See {Conceive}.]
1. The act of conceiving in the womb; the initiation of an
embryonic animal life.

I will greaty multiply thy sorrow and thy
conception. --Gen. iii.
16.

2. The state of being conceived; beginning.

Joy had the like conception in our eyes. --Shak.

3. The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in
the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation or
perception.

Under the article of conception, I shall confine
myself to that faculty whose province it is to
enable us to form a notion of our past sensations,
or of the objects of sense that we have formerly
perceived. --Stewart.

4. The formation in the mind of an image, idea, or notion,
apprehension.

Conception consists in a conscious act of the
understanding, bringing any given object or
impression into the same class with any number of
other objects or impression, by means of some
character or characters common to them all.
--Coleridge.

5. The image, idea, or notion of any action or thing which is
formed in the mind; a concept; a notion; a universal; the
product of a rational belief or judgment. See {Concept}.

He [Herodotus] says that the sun draws or attracts
the water; a metaphorical term obviously intended to
denote some more general and abstract conception
than that of the visible operation which the word
primarily signifies. --Whewell.

6. Idea; purpose; design.

Note this dangerous conception. --Shak.

7. Conceit; affected sentiment or thought. [Obs.]

He . . . is full of conceptions, points of epigram,
and witticism. --Dryden.

Syn: Idea; notion; perception; apprehemsion; comprehension.

  1. 'Our conception of Europe,' says a senior Elysee official, 'is that France, Germany and Britain are fairly close.' But the desire of France and Germany to help Mr Major is not unlimited, and it will not last for ever.
  2. Pirandello's conception involves six fictional characters abandoned by their author before he had attached them permanently to a play or a novel.
  3. "Human life begins at conception."
  4. The Legislature voted overwhelmingly to pass the latest law, which restricted the availability of abortions and defined life as beginning at conception.
  5. He offers as an alternative J S Mill's conception of a 'stationary-state economy'. I love it.
  6. But the mouse experiment at a Medical Research Council laboratory in London shows genetic defects can be detected three days after conception using a new American-developed gene-copying technique.
  7. If you don't start life at conception, then when?
  8. It costs up to four times as much as its unbranded alternative. The drugs companies argue that the report is flawed in detail and conception.
  9. There has been a significant rise in the share of first births out of wedlock during the last two decades, while the share of women who tie the knot between conception and birth has been on a decline.
  10. The judge said he believed Roe vs. Wade didn't apply to the Davis case because it dealt with the constitutionality of abortion, not conception.
  11. He said he believed Lamos strayed from O'Neill's conception, although the actors' movements and attire seemed more American than previous Soviet performances of the play he had seen.
  12. In his homily at an outdoor Mass on the shores of Lake Victoria, the pope also spoke out against abortion, saying the "dignity of every human person from the moment of conception until natural death" must be respected.
  13. Would that Christopher Morahan, the director, had a higher conception - a more dramatic conception - of what melodrama can be.
  14. Would that Christopher Morahan, the director, had a higher conception - a more dramatic conception - of what melodrama can be.
  15. To have a conception of democracy, and not say, whenever anything happens, 'Oh, we'll put them in jail' - which is the easy way.
  16. I simply note that those who personally oppose abortion but defend others' right to choice logically cannot accept the doctrine that a new life begins at conception.
  17. Ms. Weddington questioned the implications of the Missouri law _ which defines life as beginning at conception _ on some forms of birth control and in vitro fertilization.
  18. Men who work at nuclear plants, particularly those who received high radiation doses in the six months before their children's conception, had more offspring with leukemia than men in other jobs, said the study published in the British Medical Journal.
  19. The mothers were asked if they had taken vitamins at least three times a week during the three months before they became pregnant and at least three months after conception.
  20. Hammer, chairman of Occidental Petroleum, said recent violence in the predominantly Arab West Bank and Gaza Strip had nothing to do with the center's conception.
  21. "It is a theatrical environment that is very close to the original conception by Walt Disney," he said in a recent interview. "It's been on the shelf since the 1940s and is the culmination of a company dream.
  22. His conception of ethics is philosophically weak: Ethics may well have a base in nature, but it is not therefore "natural"; on the contrary, many of the great ethical revolutions have created norms that enjoin us not to do what "comes natural."
  23. "It is a theatrical environment that is very close to the original conception by Walt Disney," Michael Eisner, Walt Disney Co. chairman, said in an interview. "It's been on the shelf since the 1940s and is the culmination of a company dream.
  24. Not until the late eighteenth century did our conception of "literature" appear, and in an electronic age in which television, not books, will define the realm of knowledge, the concept of literature could easily disappear.
  25. So does his innermost conception of himself.
  26. The deformity occurs at about four to nine weeks after conception, when the heart begins forming.
  27. It is also the contact for the customer, for all questions ranging from the conception and the design process of the Web-site, to the plug- in of internet call center and the training.
  28. Whenever the city presents its slide show on long-term planning to civic groups, the Downtown Development Board flashes on the screen an architect's conception of a shiny new grocery store.
  29. By a much wider margin, the House rejected a bill that would declare that life begins at conception and a bill that would bar the use of public money, employees or facilities to assist or perform abortions.
  30. Because it judges artificial conception methods by such standards, the Vatican opposes the experimentation with or destruction of human embryos for any purpose.
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