Conjure
['kʌndʒə] or ['kʌndʒɚ]
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To call on or summon by a sacred name or in solemn manner; to implore earnestly; to adjure.
(v. i.) To combine together by an oath; to conspire; to confederate.
(v. t.) To affect or effect by conjuration; to call forth or send away by magic arts; to excite or alter, as if by magic or by the aid of supernatural powers.
(v. i.) To practice magical arts; to use the tricks of a conjurer; to juggle; to charm.
錄入:玛格利特
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Implore, importune, crave, entreat, beseech, supplicate
ANT:Deprecate, protest, remonstrate, expostulate
英格拉姆編輯
解釋/意思:
generally of the art of legerdemain &c.; conjure′ of actions treated as religious or solemn) v.i. to practise magical arts: to make an invocation: (obs.) to conspire.—v.t. to call on or summon by a sacred name or in a solemn manner: to implore earnestly: to compel (a spirit) by incantations: to enchant: to raise up or frame needlessly; to effect by jugglery:—pr.p. con′juring; pa.p. con′jured.—ns. Conjurā′tion act of summoning by a sacred name or solemnly: enchantment; Con′jurātor a conspirator; Conjure′ment adjuration; Con′jurer -or one who practises magic: an enchanter: (kon-jōō′ror) one bound by oath with others; Con′juring magic-working: the production of effects apparently miraculous by natural means; Con′jury magic."
校對:拉弗尔斯
例句/造句/用法:
- But pray, Colonel, how came you to conjure out that I should be in town today? 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- Her dark, dilated eyes rested on Birkin, as if she could conjure the truth of the future out of him, as out of some instrument of divination. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Perhaps some of my readers conjure up horrible visions of such a place. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- You promised to facilitate my visit to Adrian; I conjure you to perform your promise. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Speak--I conjure, I entreat--nay, I command you, speak. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- And now tell me, I conjure you, has not imitation been shown by us to be concerned with that which is thrice removed from the truth? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Rebecca always knew how to conjure away these moods of melancholy. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The Unquenchables had done their best to be worthy of the name, for like elves they had worked by night and conjured up a comical surprise. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- I conjured him, incoherently, but in the most impassioned manner, not to abandon himself to this wildness, but to hear me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- After passing several hours, we returned hopeless, most of my companions believing it to have been a form conjured by my fancy. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- She conjured me, she commanded me to leave her-- Beware, O beware, she cried, fly while yet your escape is practicable. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- What devil have you conjured into the dog? 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Yet, as he thus determined, fancy conjured up the miserable abode of the Greek girl. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- And again she earnestly conjured me to give up all thoughts of going out with her brother. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- In the name of all that's good--and that is not conjuring you in my own name, for Heaven knows I am not good'--said Eugene, 'don't be distressed! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
編輯:桑德拉