喜樂美語

One way to picture it: your mind takes something in and holds it, and from that holding a new thing starts to grow — an idea, a plan, or a child.

心裡「接住」了什麼，然後把它含著、養著，讓它慢慢長成一個新的東西。可能長成一個計畫、一個想法，也可能真的長成一個孩子。conceive 的重點不在「想到」那一瞬間，而在於接住之後開始孕育的那個過程——所以同一個字既能講「在腦中構思出一個新設計」，也能講「懷上身孕」。

From the word’s history

Latin concipere = con- (together) + capere (to take): to take something in and hold it. Both English uses — forming an idea in the mind and becoming pregnant — are the same 'taking in and carrying' picture.

拉丁文 concipere 由 con-（一起、完全）加 capere（拿、取）組成，字面是「把某個東西整個接進來、含住」。這條字根解釋了為什麼中文看起來毫不相干的「構思」和「懷孕」在英文裡是同一個字：兩者都是先接住、再懷著、最後生出來。

Wiktionary: conceive < Middle English conceyven < Old French concevoir < Latin concipiō, concipere (con- + capiō 'take')

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同家族的字

過去式 conceived過去分詞 conceived-ing conceiving三單 conceives

用法接近

think ofbecome pregnantsupposereproducebelievecome up withdesignplan

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。

conceiveverb/kənˈsiːv/

  • 1

    To have a child; to become pregnant (with).

    • Assisted procreation can help those trying to conceive.
    • She hath also conceived a son in her old age.
  • 2

    To develop; to form in the mind; to imagine.

    • It was among the ruins of the Capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised near twenty years of my life.
    • At the mouth of the cave we found a single litter with six bearers, all of them mutes, waiting, and with them I was relieved to see our old friend Billali, for whom I had conceived a sort of affection.
  • 3

    To imagine (as); to have a conception of; to form a representation of.

    • Can you conceive of him as a leader?
    • We shall, / As I conceive the journey, be at the Mount / Before you, Lepidus.
  • 4

    To understand (someone).

    • I conceive you.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。