心裡孕育出一個念頭
這一支是把「接住並孕育」放在腦子裡：心裡先有一個種子，然後你在裡面把它養大成形。
come up with an idea · verb · C2
To think of a new idea, plan, or design and develop it in your mind.
構思
核心畫面
One way to picture it: your mind takes something in and holds it, and from that holding a new thing starts to grow — an idea, a plan, or a child.
心裡「接住」了什麼，然後把它含著、養著，讓它慢慢長成一個新的東西。可能長成一個計畫、一個想法，也可能真的長成一個孩子…更多收起
心裡「接住」了什麼，然後把它含著、養著，讓它慢慢長成一個新的東西。可能長成一個計畫、一個想法，也可能真的長成一個孩子。conceive 的重點不在「想到」那一瞬間，而在於接住之後開始孕育的那個過程——所以同一個字既能講「在腦中構思出一個新設計」，也能講「懷上身孕」。From the word’s history
Latin concipere = con- (together) + capere (to take): to take something in and hold it. Both English uses — forming an idea in the mind and becoming pregnant — are the same 'taking in and carrying' picture.
拉丁文 concipere 由 con-（一起、完全）加 capere（拿、取）組成，字面是「把某個東西整個接進來、含住」。這條字根解釋了為什麼中文看起來毫不相干的「構思」和「懷孕」在英文裡是同一個字：兩者都是先接住、再懷著、最後生出來。
Wiktionary: conceive < Middle English conceyven < Old French concevoir < Latin concipiō, concipere (con- + capiō 'take')
Two branches
身體裡孕育出一個生命
同樣是「接住之後開始孕育」，只是這次發生在身體裡而不是腦子裡。英文沒有把這兩件事分成兩個字，正是因為它們共用同一個畫面。
become pregnant · verb · C2
To become pregnant. You can also use it about a woman or a female animal starting a baby.
懷孕
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
conceiveverb/kənˈsiːv/
- 1
To have a child; to become pregnant (with).
- Assisted procreation can help those trying to conceive.
- She hath also conceived a son in her old age.
- 2
To develop; to form in the mind; to imagine.
- It was among the ruins of the Capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised near twenty years of my life.
- At the mouth of the cave we found a single litter with six bearers, all of them mutes, waiting, and with them I was relieved to see our old friend Billali, for whom I had conceived a sort of affection.
- 3
To imagine (as); to have a conception of; to form a representation of.
- Can you conceive of him as a leader?
- We shall, / As I conceive the journey, be at the Mount / Before you, Lepidus.
- 4
To understand (someone).
- I conceive you.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。