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To make something appear or happen as if by magic, like a magician pulling something out of nowhere. It's also used more generally to mean 'bring an idea, memory, or picture into your mind' - as in 'the smell conjured up memories of my grandmother's kitchen.' In old stories, it can also mean calling up a spirit using magic words.
變出(魔術);喚起(回憶)
組成This word may come from an old Latin word meaning 'to swear together' - like people joining together with magic words or a shared oath.
同家族的字
- juryshares the Latin root 'jur', meaning to swear an oath
原始詞典資料9 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。
conjureverb/ˈkʌn.d͡ʒə/
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To perform magic tricks.
- He started conjuring at the age of 15, and is now a famous stage magician.
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To summon (a devil, etc.) using supernatural power.
- We all technically have the ability to conjure, just like Caine. It just comes naturally to him, but requires a lot more skill and concentration for us.
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archaicTo practice black magic.
- "Thou great Norman lump!" he muttered. "If I conjure till Doomsday, I cannot make thee gold."
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archaicTo enchant or bewitch.
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To evoke.
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To imagine or picture in the mind.
- There was a deep silence, while Helen's vivid fancy conjured up the scene. She knew the small neat room—she had been with Mrs. Palmer to see it; the cheerful garden filled with flowers, the hum of the distant play-ground, the rosy clusters of an acacia-tree, whose branches almost came in at the window;...
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archaicTo make an urgent request to; to appeal to or beseech.
- I conjure you, let him know, / Whate'er was done against him, Cato did it.
- Stammering out something, I knew not what, I rolled away from him against the wall, and then conjured him, whoever or whatever he might be, to keep quiet, and let me get up and light the lamp again.
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obsoleteTo conspire or plot.
- Drew after him the third part of Heaven's sons / Conjured against the Highest.
conjurenoun/ˈkʌn.d͡ʒə/
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The practice of magic; hoodoo; conjuration.
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。