1620s, from French évoquer or directly from Latin evocare "call out, rouse, summon" (see evocation). Often more or less with a sense of "calling spirits," or being called by them. Of feelings, memories, etc., by 1856. Related: Evoked; evokes; evoking.
雙語例句
1. These images are likely to evoke a strong response in the viewer.
這些圖像可能會在觀眾中產(chǎn)生強(qiáng)烈反響.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
2. Dickens's readers really wanted to feel the kind of bathetic sadness that he tried to evoke.
狄更斯的讀者非常希望感受到他試圖喚起的那種虛假的悲傷。
來自辭典例句
3. They evoke no ardor in the male breast.
它激不起男人胸中的熱情.
來自飄（部分）
4. We must - whatever strategies we evoke - keep those enemies the point of our attack.
不管我們開展什么樣的戰(zhàn)略,我們都必須把這些敵人作為我們的打擊對象.
來自辭典例句
5. Her only resource was the sympathy she could evoke.