Conceive

(verb.) become pregnant; undergo conception; 'She cannot conceive'; 'My daughter was conceived in Christmas Day'.

校对:内奥米

• Whatever is absurd is unintelligible; nor is it possible for the imagination to conceive any thing contrary to a demonstration. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• I can not conceive of such a thing as Genoa in ruins. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I could not conceive or believe: it was more like an inspiration. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I cannot conceive how I can be guilty of such heartless unfeeling behaviour! 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• It was this, I conceive, which led to the Shade's being advised by the gallery to turn over! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I conceive a conditional engagement to be null and void, when the conditions are not fulfilled. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• He could not conceive of anything being created from nothing. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• It was a tawdry and ill-conceived imitation. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• His ambition was to restore the empire of Jengis Khan as he conceived it, a project in which he completely failed. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He was miraculously conceived through his mother dreaming of a beautiful white elephant! 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• From this quality it is easily conceived why it should be connected with the sense of beauty. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• I conceived the idea that the time when the banns were read and when the clergyman said, Ye are now to declare it! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• My aunt conceived a great attachment for her, by which she was induced to give her an education superior to that which she had at first intended. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• I conceived the happy idea of disappearing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• I had come in with an idea of distinguishing myself rather, conceiving that I was very well prepared; but it turned out to be quite a mistake. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I hastened to drive from my mind the hateful notion I had been conceiving respecting Grace Poole; it disgusted me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Such an inference would amount to knowledge, and would imply the absolute contradiction and impossibility of conceiving any thing different. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• All said I was wicked, and perhaps I might be so; what thought had I been but just conceiving of starving myself to death? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• All her dear plans were embittered, and she thought with disgust of Sir James's conceiving that she recognized him as her lover. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Or is the Idea of Good another mode of conceiving God? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Let him aid his fancy by conceiving these points to be of different colours, the better to prevent their coalition and confusion. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• A young man naturally conceives an aversion to labour, when for a long time he receives no benefit from it. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The day is not yet far spent when he conceives it to be necessary that her rooms should be prepared for her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• When Woodrow Wilson argues that social problems are not susceptible to treatment in a party program, he must mean only one thing: that they cannot be handled by the state as he conceives it. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• He conceives an idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• The imagination conceives the simple object at once, with facility, by a single effort of thought, without change or variation. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Prince John's face flushed with the pride of a spoilt child, who has undergone what it conceives to be an insult. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.

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