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conceive
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🇺🇸 /kʌnsˈiv/
conceive 主要表示“在心中孕育出想法”,也可指怀孕,以及设想或理解某人、某事。
💡 记忆钩子
把 conceive 想成“孕育”:身体里孕育孩子,头脑里孕育想法;由此又可以进一步表示设想某种情况,或形成对某人、某事的理解。
📝 学习建议
- 先掌握“怀孕”和“构想、想出”这两个核心义项,再学习“设想”和较少见的“理解某人”。
- 不要把 conceive 只理解成“怀孕”;在新闻、学术和日常讨论中,它更常表示构想或设想。
📖 中文释义
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core 怀孕;受孕📖 指身体里开始孕育孩子,也就是怀孕或受孕。这个义项和“在身体里孕育某物”的核心画面直接相连。💡 常见句型是 conceive 或 conceive a child,也常见 trying to conceive 表示“备孕”。作“怀孕”讲时,通常不直接说 conceive with 某人;with 更常用于表示怀上谁的孩子等具体对象。这个词在医疗、新闻和较正式的日常表达中都很常见。ambitransitiveThey have been trying to conceive for over a year.他们已经备孕一年多了。She conceived her first child at the age of thirty.她三十岁时怀上了第一个孩子。
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core 构想;想出📖 指在头脑中孕育出一个想法、计划或作品,从无到有地形成它。💡 常见句型是 conceive an idea、conceive a plan 或 conceive a project。它强调想法的形成,不能简单替代表示随便想到的 think of;在谈创意、方案和项目时尤其自然。过去式和过去分词是 conceived。transitiveThe team conceived a plan to reduce food waste.团队构想出了一个减少食物浪费的计划。She conceived the idea while walking home.她在回家路上构想出了这个主意。
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common 设想;想象📖 指在脑中形成某种情景、身份或可能性的画面,也就是设想“某人或某事会是怎样”。这是“头脑孕育出一个画面”的延伸。💡 常见句型是 conceive of 加名词、动名词或疑问词从句,例如 conceive of doing something。它通常比 imagine 更正式,否定式 can’t conceive of 很常见,表示“无法想象”。不要把 of 随意省略,因为表示“设想某种情况”时 conceive of 是最典型的搭配。ambitransitive ditransitive with-ofI can’t conceive of living without the internet.我无法想象没有互联网的生活。
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rare 理解某人📖 指形成对某人的理解,明白对方的想法或处境;这是“在头脑中形成认识”的较少见用法。💡 通常用作 conceive someone,或使用更常见的 conceive of someone,具体结构要根据上下文判断。单独用它表示“我理解你”会显得古旧或不自然,现代英语一般使用 understand。这个义项多见于较正式或旧式表达。transitive
conceives
present,singular,third-person
conceiving
participle,present
conceived
participle,past
conceived
past
📘 英文释义 (WordNet)
共 3 组
become pregnant; undergo conception;
同义词集:
conceive
She cannot conceive
My daughter was conceived in Christmas Day
上位: change state, turn
judge or regard; look upon; judge; ; ;
同义词集:
think
believe
consider
conceive
I think he is very smart
I believe her to be very smart
I think that he is her boyfriend
The racist conceives such people to be inferior
上位: evaluate, judge, pass judgment
下位: be known as, consider, esteem, feel, hold, know as, look on, look upon, reckon, regard, regard as, repute, rethink, see, take to be, think, think of, view
have the idea for;
同义词集:
gestate
conceive
conceptualize
conceptualise
He conceived of a robot that would help paralyzed patients
This library was well conceived
下位: design, discover, find
🌳 词源
源自中古英语,经过古法语,最终来自拉丁语,原有“孕育、构想”的含义。
From Middle English conceyven, from Old French concevoir, conceveir, from Latin concipiō, concipere (“to devise, to conceive”).
🔄 变式
conceived
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conceives
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conceiving
present
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