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conceive of

/kuhn-seev/US // kənˈsiv //UK // (kənˈsiːv) //

构想的,构想出的,构想出,设想的

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v.有主动词 verb
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    con·ceived, con·ceiv·ing.

    • : to form: He conceived the project while he was on vacation.
    • : to form a notion or idea of; imagine.
    • : to hold as an opinion; think; believe: I can't conceive that it would be of any use.
    • : to experience or form: to conceive a great love for music.
    • : to express, as in words.
    • : to become pregnant with.
    • : to beget.
    • : to begin, originate, or found in a particular way: a new nation conceived in liberty.
    • : Archaic. to understand; comprehend.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    con·ceived, con·ceiv·ing.

    • : to form an idea; think.
    • : to become pregnant.

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Examples

  • It was while taking one of Goldman’s theater classes that “Here I Am” was conceived.

  • In this radical new paradigm, robots are conceived and born rather than designed and manufactured.

  • As for people breastfeeding or hoping to get pregnant, Afshar says it’s totally okay to get the vaccine whenever it becomes available, and there’s no reason to wait to start trying to conceive or begin fertility treatments.

  • Originally conceived as a “small house”, it started morphing into a “huge palace,” Kolesnikov tells Navalny in the video.

  • However we conceive of “us,” we have ample grounds for humility.

  • “The issue was how to conceive what the show was going to look and feel like,” says McKenzie.

  • He even claims that hen partridges conceive just by smelling the scent of males.

  • These military men find it hard to conceive that there might be no real policy at all.

  • He also sounds better than the crossover children he helped conceive.

  • Last year, as I began to conceive a novel, set in shadowy Istanbul, about the sale of a gray market antiquity worth millions.

  • But these were to him things so obvious that he could not conceive any reasonable person doubting them.

  • Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son and his name shall be called Emmanuel.

  • You shall conceive heat, you shall bring forth stubble: your breath as fire shall devour you.

  • I conceive that the strictest union of affection is requisite to conjugal felicity.

  • Let us enlarge our minds to grasp it, that we may, to some extent at least, conceive its greatness and appreciate its beauties.