英语词汇“evocation”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

WORD ORIGINevoke

Origin:

1600-1700 French évoquer, from Latin evocare ‘to call out’, from vocare ‘to call’

VERB TABLE

evoke

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	evoke
	he, she, it	evokes
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	evoked
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have evoked
	he, she, it	has evoked
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had evoked
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will evoke
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have evoked

Continuous Form
Present	I	am evoking
	he, she, it	is evoking
	you, we, they	are evoking
Past	I, he, she, it	was evoking
	you, we, they	were evoking
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been evoking
	he, she, it	has been evoking
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been evoking
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be evoking
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been evoking

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

David hardly needed any encouragement to visit the sea, since it still evoked for him the happiest memories.
Her speech today evoked surprise and outrage from many French officials.
Jackson's speech evoked strong responses from the audience.
She tried everything in an attempt to evoke sympathy and pity from her parents.
The movie evokes a simpler time when life was less complicated.
The names Witches Well, Candlemaker Row and Grassmarket Square evoke visions of another era.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

Bee swarms, on the other hand, evoke another sort of awe.
For instance, the poetry of Blaise Cendrars evoked the motion of the Trans-Siberian Express.
It evokes a fact, i.e. an object of conception, rather than an object of perception.
It is one of the ways in which the Spirit evokes prayer in the people of the Messiah.
Since joining the business world I have seen similar techniques evoke similarly successful results.
The above are the main questions evoked during the interviews.

Longman Language Activatorto make someone have a particular feeling► make

: to make somebody worried/nervous/happy etc · Stop staring at me - you're making me nervous.· Money is the only thing that seemed to make him happy.· Standing up all day really makes me tired.make somebody want to do something · The whole thing was so depressing - it made me want to give up and go home.

► have

: have somebody worried/confused/interested etc to make someone worried, confused etc, especially only for a short time: · You had me worried for a minute - I thought you weren't going to show up.· The film was so full of suspense, it had the audience on the edge of their seats.

► excite

formal make people feel interested, jealous etc: excite interest/jealousy/suspicion etc: · Arthur's enormous wealth excited the envy of his rivals.· Recent fossil finds in Africa have excited interest among palaeontologists.

► arouse

written to make people have a strong interest in something or strong feelings, such as anger, fear, dislike etc: arouse anger/suspicion/fear etc: · His strange behavior aroused my suspicions.· The resignation of the managing director is certain to arouse new fears about the future of the company.arouse interest/curiosity: · The success of the recent TV series has aroused young people's curiosity about nature in general.

► evoke

written to make someone have a particular emotion, thought, or reaction: · She tried everything in an attempt to evoke sympathy and pity from her parents.· Her speech today evoked surprise and outrage from many French officials.· The names Witches Well, Candlemaker Row and Grassmarket Square evoke visions of another era.

► generate

to make something such as a feeling exist and grow: · The murder trial has generated enormous public interest.· Realistic programmes about crime only serve to generate fear among the public.· Completing the project on time and under budget generated a feeling of pride and accomplishment among the team.

► whip up

to deliberately make a lot of people feel interested, excited, angry etc about something that you think is important: whip up something: · It's difficult to whip up people's interest in the environment.· She's been giving speeches all over the state to whip up support for her campaign.whip somebody/something up: · Rylan has been accused of whipping crowds up into frenzies of violent hatred.

► reduce somebody to

: reduce somebody to tears/silence/a bag of nerves etc to treat someone in such an unkind or unfair way, that they cry, are silent etc: · He would often yell at his wife until he had reduced her to tears.· One look from him was enough to reduce anyone to absolute silence.· Her outbursts in the classroom have the effect of reducing her students to gibbering wrecks.

when something makes you remember something from the past► remind somebody of

to make someone remember a person, thing, or time from the past: · The perfume always reminded him of his mother.· Walking across the field reminded me of the happy summers I'd spent on my grandparents' farm.that reminds me of somebody/something (=say this when someone says or does something that makes you remember someone or something) spoken: · That reminds me of a joke I heard last week.

► make somebody think of

to remind someone of a person, experience, or time in your life: · I hate that smell - it makes me think of when I was in the hospital.· All this stuff just makes me think of Dan - I should get rid of it.· Baked beans always made her think of that first camping trip.

► bring/call to mind

if events or experiences bring to mind something or call to mind something, they remind you of past events or experiences because they are very similar to them: · The case calls to mind the 1997 killing of a ten-year-old girl in upstate New York.· His account vividly brings to mind the descriptions of battles in Homer.

► be a reminder

to remind you of someone or something from the past, especially in a way that makes you sad: · The town wanted to forget the war but the destroyed bridge was a painful reminder.be a reminder of: · She kept all his letters as a reminder of their time together.be a constant reminder: · The scar across his forehead was a constant reminder of the accident.

► bring back memories/take somebody back

if something brings back memories or takes you back , it reminds you of a particular and often pleasant event or experience from your past that you thought you had forgotten: · These old pictures really bring back some memories.· It's years since I heard any Beatles' music - it really takes me back.bring back memories of something: · The order and discipline of the job brought back memories of his army days.take somebody back to something: · Staying in my old bedroom again takes me back to my childhood.

► evoke

formal to remind someone of how they felt at a particular time in the past by producing a particular feeling, emotion, or memory in them: · The movie evokes a simpler time when life was less complicated.· David hardly needed any encouragement to visit the sea, since it still evoked for him the happiest memories.

► evocative

if something such as a poem, a painting, or an image is evocative , it makes people remember a particular part of their past by producing a particular feeling, emotion, or memory in them: · The air was full of evocative smells of flowers and freshly cut grass.evocative of: · The painting was evocative of all the sun and bright colours of Provence.

► come flooding back

if memories come flooding back , you suddenly remember them in a detailed way because of something that has happened: · As I began my speech all my teenage insecurities came flooding back. · He hadn't expected to see her, but he was surprised at how quickly memories of Paris came flooding back.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► also

· While the above are possibly reinforcing features, school curricula, may also evoke tensions in gender identities.

► still

· The face, although sad, still evoked a feeling of serenity.· Motherhood is still evoked as a religious calling, a state of being that elevates women above the human condition.· This image is almost entirely man-made, save perhaps for the palm-tree, yet it still evokes a sense of paradise.· Hence 60 years on the name Dunkirk still evokes images of triumph in the face of great odds.· It was absurd to imagine that a modern city could still evoke that kind of magic!· This small, inland town still evokes a timeless quality and a feeling of quiet seclusion.

NOUN► atmosphere

· He evokes its atmosphere with uncanny skill.

► event

· Here also the infinitive evokes an event which actually occurred but which very well might not have.· Endo-wed with a prodigious memory, he remembered the names of old comrades, or evoked events dating back decades.· In some of its uses, the to infinitive evokes an event as non-realized or yet to be realized.· Get evokes the infinitive's event as a result which has been achieved or obtained but does not specify by what means.

► image

· They evoke romantic images of humming orchard hives and summer sweetness, presided over by veiled eccentrics steeped in arcane lore.· Linked often enough, their various connections evoked images in the media of a conspiracy involving cash-and-carry favors.· Hence 60 years on the name Dunkirk still evokes images of triumph in the face of great odds.· The image of the governor sending soldiers to block a courthouse door, they say, evokes images of segregationist Gov.· Some have made pilgrimages to re-enact ancient rituals in caves, others have dressed in costumes and objects evoking traditional Goddess images.

► memory

· In these, however, no special attempt was made by the interviewers to evoke memories of grandparents or other old people.· Wild rice, perhaps because it is so much rarer and costlier than corn, evokes different kinds of memories and feelings.· Sanchez's touchline histrionics evoked memories of some of Martin O'Neill's maddest moments on the same turf.· The recollection of the summer evening sunlight coming through the large window behind the preacher's head evokes many nostalgic memories.· Aroma, like music, can often evoke memories.· Now the smell has become rosy, it evokes strings of memory that weave into something new.· It may even evoke a memory of a place.

► name

· Some one suggested the Mayor of St Louis, Missouri, thinking that the consonance of names might perhaps evoke sympathy.· Hence 60 years on the name Dunkirk still evokes images of triumph in the face of great odds.

► reaction

· The suddenness of the pits crisis evoked a popular reaction, and the miners' voice is being heard.· Let us look first at the question why Kant evoked such different reactions.· I was hooked, I knew my singing wasn't good enough to evoke that kind of reaction from an audience.· Mesmeric and hypnotic, his prodigious output evokes strong reactions.· At first this procedure evoked a strong reaction from faculty heads who perceived the dangers of over-personalised accounts.

► response

· Gentle pressure over the hindquarters as shown may first be necessary to evoke the required response.· The current awareness that the modern nation-state has become severely strained, or even ineffectual, has evoked a range of responses.· The couple launched an appeal which evoked a generous response from organisations, companies and individuals.· That is, a single schema had been used to evoke a behavioral response.· Or they may fail to evoke a response at all.· Virtually anything waved around in the receptive fields of these cells will evoke a response under the right conditions.

► sense

· This image is almost entirely man-made, save perhaps for the palm-tree, yet it still evokes a sense of paradise.· Its archetypal shape and colour have universal appeal, evoking a sense of fun and childhood.

► state

· Cellular phones, too, often evoke a confused state of dread.