conjure up

英 [ˈkʌndʒə(r) ʌp]

美 [ˈkʌndʒər ʌp]

变魔术般地创造出; 使浮现于脑海; 想起; （字词、声音等）使想起，使联想到

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 使浮现于脑海;想起
  If youconjure upa memory, picture, or idea, you create it in your mind.
  1. When he closed his eyes, he could conjure up in exact colour almost every event of his life...
     他闭上眼睛时，几乎他一生中经历的每一件事情都会真切地浮现在他的脑海。
  2. When we think of adventurers, many of us conjure up images of larger-than-life characters trekking to the North Pole.
     一想到探险者，我们很多人脑海中浮现的便是长途跋涉前往北极的非凡人物形象。
• PHRASAL VERB (字词、声音等)使想起，使联想到
  If something such as a word or soundconjures upparticular images or ideas, it makes you think of them.
  1. Jimmy Buffett's music conjures up a warm night in the tropics...
     吉米·巴菲特的音乐让人想起热带地区温暖的夜晚。
  2. What does the word 'feminist' conjure up for you?
     “女权主义者”这个词会让你想到什么？
• → see:conjure 1

英英释义

verb

• summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
  1. raise the specter of unemployment
  2. he conjured wild birds in the air
  3. call down the spirits from the mountain
  Synonym:raiseconjureinvokeevokestircall downarousebring upput forwardcall forth

双语例句

• At times, he would conjure up an elephant or a horse, a cow, a sheep, a man, or a woman.
  在那时，他将变出一个大象或马，或牛，羊，一个男人，或女人。
• This gallery has been designed as an air-raid shelter in order to conjure up the atmosphere of war.
  日占时期展馆设计成一个防空洞，以营造战争的气氛。
• The name IBM may conjure up images of white-shirted, middle-aged men.
  一想到IBM，人们脑海中可能立即浮现出穿着白衬衣的中年男人的形象。
• The mere mention of the words 'heart failure', can conjure up, to the layman, the prospect of imminent death
  一提“心脏衰竭”四字，外行人就联想到命不久矣的情景。
• It can help us conjure up a mood or remind us of an enjoyable experience.
  它能帮助我们唤起一种情绪或者回想起一次愉快的经历。
• He can conjure up ghosts.
  他能呼鬼差神。对吗？
• Susan can conjure up a good deal in half hour.
  苏珊能在半小时内变戏法似的做出一顿美味的饭菜。
• And it makes us conjure up all kinds of ideas in sound as well as in image.
  它使我们用声音的，图像的形式来想尽各种各样的念头。
• Future and past thus conjure up a spectacle in which self-righteous morality is linked with political might.
  未来与过去由此交织出一幅自以为是的道德观与政治实力联系在一起的景象。
• Dilapidated as they are, the buildings really conjure up the earlier times.
  尽管已是破败不堪，但这些建筑物却使人不由得想起了那逝去的岁月。