Conceive



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解释

GRE 红宝书

• v.想象, 构想; 怀孕
• ［英］ v.想象, 构想 ( imagine) ; 怀孕 ( to become pregnant with)
• ［记］ con[共同]+ceive[抓] -> 一起抓[思想] -> 构想)
• ［同］ 同根词: perceive ( 察觉) ; receive ( 收到) 派生词: conceivable ( adj. 想象得出的, 可信的)

Webster Collegiate

verb (conceived; conceiving)

• Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French conceivre, from Latin concipere to take in, conceive, from com- + capere to take — more at heave
• Date: 14th century
• transitive verb
  • 1.
    • a. to become pregnant with (young) <conceive a child
    • b. to cause to begin ; originate project conceived by the company's founder
  • 2.
    • a. to take into one's mind <conceive a prejudice
    • b. to form a conception of ; imagine badly conceived design
  • 3. to apprehend by reason or imagination ; understand <unable to conceive his reasons
  • 4. to have as an opinion <I cannot conceive that he acted alone
• intransitive verb
  • 1. to become pregnant
  • 2. to have a conception — usually used with of<conceives of death as emptiness
• Synonyms: see think
• ? conceiver noun

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