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 evoke [ɪ'vok]   添加此单词到默认生词本
vt. 唤起, 引起, 召(魂)

[法] 提审, 移送


  1. Tending or having the power to evoke.
    唤起…的,引起…的有能力唤起的
  2. Lacking power to evoke interest through overuse or repetition; hackneyed.
    陈腐的,老一套的因久用或重复而失去引起兴趣的力量的,老生常谈的
  3. Songs that evoke old memories.
    唤起往日回忆的歌曲


evoke


Evoke \E*voke"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Evoked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Evoking}.] [L. evocare; e out + vocare to call, fr. vox,
vocis, voice: cf. F ['e]voquer. See {Voice}, and cf.
{Evocate}.]
1. To call out; to summon forth.

To evoke the queen of the fairies. --T. Warton.

A regulating discipline of exercise, that whilst
evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to
be wasted. --De Quincey.

2. To call away; to remove from one tribunal to another. [R.]
``The cause was evoked to Rome.'' --Hume.

  1. Nabisco executives are intrigued, but a little skeptical. Among them, ideas like electronic substitutes for "cents-off" coupons, which appeal to Mr. Gerstner, evoke shudders.
  2. What's amazing is that Lavin manages to evoke a sense of pity for this woman, making the ending moving and a bit teary as mother and daughter come to a sort of uneasy truce at the final curtain.
  3. Such movies as Sophia Loren's "Two Women" and Farrah Fawcett's "Extremities," managed to evoke the violence and rage of rape in a realistic and adult way.
  4. And while the Capri's somewhat angular lines contrast with the curvy shape of the Miata, both sport nostalgic styling designed to evoke the British roadsters of the 1960s.
  5. Zoomy graphics do not a documentary make. "Instant Replay" is an attempt to evoke our memories of the recent past with video footage from critical moments in our recent history.
  6. "Now to ask the question is to evoke a smile," Mr. Abrams said.
  7. Lawson Oyekan's huge, hand-built pots evoke memories of African landscapes, the clay wrapping around itself as it might enclose a family group.
  8. This can evoke hilarity among unhip spectators, but it also permits the racers to move as fast as they do.
  9. Japanese who invest in U.S. real estate evoke mixed emotions on this continent, angering Americans competing to buy the same properties but pleasing sellers.
  10. Terry, a former used-car salesman, will point to the fetus and declare: "That's not a blob of cells. That's a little girl." Operation Rescue also distributes a video designed to evoke equal shock.
  11. It is a pleasant surprise to find that the artist who - in the words of his companion Henry Angelo - 'burlesqued even the burlesque' can also evoke a lyrical mood.
  12. Designed to evoke a rusting, fading America, it was released at the height of the 1982 recession, and Marsh makes sure to note its implications.
  13. With AGP's help, the school decided its image should "evoke tradition and history, capture the spirit of Tuck's relationship with Dartmouth and say that we're modern and of the world," according to the dean.
  14. This area today does not evoke quite the same esprit as that of Balzac's novels, but its 18th century town houses are still among the loveliest in Paris.
  15. It is perfect that Marsden's first word, 'Violent,' should evoke Edith Evans (the full trisyllabic emphasis deployed in Evans's Millamant).
  16. Snowy winter scenes may evoke nostalgia for some folks, but to those in charge of clearing the driveway and sidewalks snow can loom as a back-wrenching menace.
  17. "The Austrians' task is to win maximum trust in the West, and at the same time only evoke a minimum of mistrust in the East," Kreisky once said.
  18. The title may naturally evoke the generality of Pop, but it does so with a gentle, perhaps unconscious irony.
  19. Rock songs such as the Eagle's "James Dean," and David Essex's "Rock On" evoke his name.
  20. In "Green Wheat Field," for example, the varying rhythms of the brush strokes evoke the wind in the wheat, the rolling hills, the roiling sky.
  21. Nikola's achievements still evoke pride among the 500,000 Montenegrins, who account for about 5 percent of the Yugoslav population.
  22. The researchers hypothesize that new perfumes often flop because they don't evoke in consumers what Madison Avenue promises.
  23. Failure to improve intellectual property protection could evoke US sanctions after six to nine months. The trade representative's office devoted 10 pages in the 1991 trade estimates report to Chinese deficiencies.
  24. In forcing France to reexamine its past, Mr. Verges will evoke the Algerian War.
  25. The costumes span an equally wide stylistic range but are clearly meant to evoke the "ancien regime."
  26. Musical variations evoke events in the novel, such as the don's encounter with a flock of sheep and magical ride through the air on a wooden horse.
  27. For Mr. Dukakis, the numbers also fit his campaign theme that the federal government "can't do it alone" just as he now reaches out to voters in an appeal that seeks to evoke an idealism and kinship with himself "to get America moving again."
  28. Good grief, Jip the dog is more memorable than the characters in most of last week's television dramas. There was one programme which did have something of Dickens' power to evoke the very smell of its milieu.
  29. Between bursts of orchestral brilliance, the soloists evoke good, faithful 13th-century people who happen to live in an astonishing world of sound.
  30. "My coats indeed cost several thousand dollars," said Castelbajac. "I want to make quality, and even though the furs are not real I want them to evoke luxury and a dream.
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