詞彙精選：conceive的用法和辨析大綱

一、詳細釋義：

v.

懷孕 [I,T]

例句：

Women, he says, should give up alcohol before they plan to conceive.

他說女性在計劃懷孕之前應該戒酒。

例句：

About one in six couples has difficulty conceiving.

大約1/6的夫妻有受孕困難。

想像 [I,T]

例句：

It's difficult to conceive of travelling to the moon.

到月球去旅行是很難想像的。

例句：

I cannot conceive of such a thing as genoa in ruins.

我想象不出熱那亞變成廢墟的事情。

持有 [I,T]

例句：

He seems to have conceived an abject, unreasoned terror of the railroad.

他好象對鐵路公司持有一種意氣消沉、不可理喻的恐懼心理。

例句：

He conceived of an idea and believed that it existed or should exist.

他持有一個理想，相信它已經存在或者應該存在。

認爲，以爲 [T]

例句：

The ancients conceived the earth as afloat in water.

古人認爲地球飄浮在水裏。

例句：

We conceive of the family as being in a constant state of change.

我們認爲家庭處於不斷變化之中。

構思，設想，考慮 [I,T]

例句：

She had conceived the idea of a series of novels.

她萌生出撰寫系列小說的想法。

例句：

He conceived of the first truly portable computer in 1968.

1968年，他構想出第一臺真正的便攜式計算機。

二、詞義辨析：

devise,conceive,formulate

這些動詞的均含“設計、設想”之意。devise側重設計的臨時性和權宜性，並隱含有更多的設想可用。conceive強調在制定計劃之前的先有設想構思。formulate與conceive相反，指在devise之後的具體設計活動。

三、詞義辨析：

think,conceive,imagine,fancy,realize

這些動詞均可表示“在思想中形成一個看法或觀念”之意。 think最普通用詞，指想或思索，也指由反覆思考而作出判斷或得出結論等。conceive指在頭腦中組織好自己的思想，在心中形成一個系統的思想或一個見解。imagine比conceive更強調形象思維，指在頭腦中形成一個清晰明確的意象。fancy與imagine略不同，往往指的是不切實際的，屬於夢幻般的想象。 realize指領悟，通過生動的構思或想象從而抓住事物的本質。

四、相關短語：

conceive of

想象,設想

一、參考例句：

Can you conceive of a complete vacuum?

你能想象出完全真空的情形嗎？

I can hardly conceive of your doing such a thing.

我很難想象你會做出這種事情。

We can't conceive of living without a telephone.

我們簡直設想不出沒有電話人怎麼活下去。

I cannot conceive where he came up with that idea.

我想不出他是怎麼想到這個主意的。

I can't conceive of anything funnier than that.

我想不出有比那更有趣的東西。

It's difficult to conceive of travelling to the moon.

到月球去旅行是很難想像的。

Giraffe females can conceive while still feeding their young infant.

雌性長頸鹿在哺育小長頸鹿的時候也會懷孕。

I cannot conceive why you allowed the child to go alone.

我真想不通你爲什麼讓孩子一個人走。

I cannot conceive of such a thing as genoa in ruins.

我想象不出熱那亞變成廢墟的事情。

These terms don’t map well to how users conceive of time.

這些術語和用戶對時間的理解沒有很好的映射關係。