| 单词 | invoke |
| 释义 | in·voke 1. a. < the gods had to be invoked to bring rain — T.E.Sanford > < she would invoke the Travelers' Aid Society, and they would assist her in getting a … place to live — Donn Byrne > b. < racist doctrines are invoked for political ends — Ruth Benedict > < invoke the balance-of-payments difficulties to justify … import prohibitions — Economist > < four theories … invoked by geographers to explain the origin or the areas — S.A.Cain > < imaginary lesions … invoked to account for conditions which had a merely psychogenic origin — R.S.Ellery > 2. a. < spokesmen for the two tribes invoked the spirits of departed … chiefs to tell them they were now as one — Time > < invoke a plague on all their houses — W.L.Sperry > b. < more misquotations probably have been attributed to Jefferson than to any other American, because many politicians who invoke his name have read him not at all — L.B.Wright > 3. a. < invoke the board's help in getting his old job back — Dixon Wecter > < the student of genetics invokes the aid of the physicist and biochemist — J.M.Fogg > b. < invoke mercy > < invoked their forgiveness > 4. a. b. < invoke the penalties of the law — Albert Mowbray > < military sanctions may be invoked only after economic sanctions have failed — Normal Hill > < invoked the veto six times in the dispute — C.D.Fuller > < invoke a promise > < unhesitatingly invoked the health department's broad powers — Leonard Engel > < because it possesses that right … can usually discipline the majority without invoking its prerogative — Foreign Affairs > 5. a. < controls alien to … peacetime custom will have to be invoked — Stacy May > < invoke bold visions at a time of unrest — Norman Cousins > < discipline should not be invoked … without first consulting the union — Earl Brown > < alliteration's artful aid is invoked on every page — Irish Digest > b. < operations … invoke new problems of administration, maintenance and supply — H.H.Arnold & I.C.Eaker > < stabilizing the regime and invoking social and patriotic fervor — E.P.Snow > |
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