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To elicit something is to get it out of someone — an answer, a smile, a secret, a strong feeling — especially when it does not come easily. Teachers elicit answers by asking good questions instead of just telling. Police and reporters try to elicit information. A joke can elicit a laugh. It is a fairly formal school-and-office word; in daily talk people more often say get, draw out, or get someone to say. You elicit a reaction or information from someone; you do not elicit a person. The thing that comes out was already there, waiting — you pull it forth, you do not invent it.
引出、套出（答案、反應、資訊）
組成Borrowed as a whole from Latin elicitus, from the verb eliciō, “to draw forth”. English does not split it into living pieces.
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- elicitationthe noun: the act of drawing something out
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。
elicitverb/ɪˈlɪsɪt/
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To evoke, educe (emotions, feelings, responses, etc.); to generate, obtain, or provoke as a response or answer.
- Shouts of laughter were elicited, smart biddings drawn out, from the whispers of a timid miss, to the stentorian voice of a fox-hunting squire, and not a few fracas from parties either contending for a supposed prize, or disclaiming their chance for it,...
- Elizabeth's queenship elicited her subjects' fantasies and fears that she was, as Shakespeare's Cleopatra puts it, “no more but e'en a woman,” and that a woman ruling over men would necessarily subject her entire realm to unbridled feminine sexual desire.
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To draw out, bring out, bring forth (something latent); to obtain information from someone or something.
- Fred wished to elicit the time of the meeting from Jane.
- Did you elicit a response?
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To use logic to arrive at truth; to derive by reason.
elicitadj/ɪˈlɪsɪt/
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obsoleteElicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident.
- An elicit act of equity.
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。