喜樂美語
  1. 1

    To invoke means to call on something for help or support. You can invoke a god or spirit in prayer, invoke a law or rule as your reason for doing something ('the company invoked an old contract clause'), or, in computing, invoke a function or command, meaning to make it run.

    祈求、召喚；援引(法規)；(電腦)呼叫、調用

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組成in- (upon) + Latin vocare (to call) - literally 'to call upon.'

同家族的字

  • voiceshares the Latin root vocare/vox (to call/voice)
  • evokeshares the Latin root vocare (to call) - evoke means to call up a feeling or memory
  • provokeshares the Latin root vocare (to call) - provoke means to call out a strong reaction

原始詞典資料8 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。

invokeverb/ɪnˈvoʊk/

  • 1

    To call upon (a person, a god) for help, assistance or guidance.

  • 2

    To solicit, petition for, appeal to a favorable attitude.

    • The envoy invoked the King of Kings's magnanimity to reduce his province's tribute after another drought.
    • Whatever the pressures that have invoked the Minister's diktat, the outcome is Gilbertian.
  • 3

    nauticaltransportTo call another ship.

  • 4

    To call to mind (something) for some purpose.

    • After marriage, the man had anciently (but this was anterior to Christianity) the power of life and death over his wife. She could invoke no law against him; he was her sole tribunal and law.
    • The acquisition of a useless part can hardly be said to raise an organism in the natural scale; and in the case of the imperfect, closed flowers, above described, if any new principle has to be invoked, it must be one of retrogression rather than of progression; and so it must be with many parasitic and degraded animals.
  • 5

    To appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority.

    • In certain Christian circles, invoking the Bible constitutes irrefutable proof.
    • He invoked cadaveric poisoning as the reason for the high death rate among priests and monks […]
  • 6

    To conjure up with incantations.

    • This satanist ritual invokes Beelzebub.
  • 7

    To bring about as an inevitable consequence.

    • Blasphemy is taboo as it may invoke divine wrath.
  • 8

    computingengineeringmathematicsTo cause (a program or subroutine) to execute.

    • Interactive programs let the users enter choices and invoke the corresponding routines.
    • […]the selling price and cost of a particular item are derived by the system through a table lookup and assigned to the item at invoking time.

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。