及物动词乞灵，祈求; 提出或授引…以支持或证明; 召鬼; 借助
及物动词
1. It invoked memories of my childhood.
它使我想起自己的童年。
2.
2. I invoked their forgiveness.
我恳求他们原谅。
1. 激活：2 而方法可以由方法调用(method call)来激活(invoke)以执行其他任务.据个例子: 老板(调用者)要求员工(被调用者)完成一项任务,而老板并不知道工人怎样完成任务,而工人中 组织者比如车间主任他接到任务后,
1. 援用,援引(法律)
If you invoke a law, you state that you are taking a particular action because that law allows or tells you to.
e.g. The judge invoked an international law that protects refugees.
法官援引了一项保护难民的国际法。
2. 引用,援引(原则、格言、名人)
If you invoke something such as a principle, a saying, or a famous person, you refer to them in order to support your argument.
e.g. He invoked memories of Britain''s near-disastrous disarmament in the 1930s...
他援引了英国 20 世纪 30 年代几近灾难性的裁军事件。
e.g. In political matters George Washington went out of his way to avoid invoking the authority of Christ.
在政治问题上,乔治·华盛顿刻意避免借助基督的权威。
3. 引起，唤起，激发(感情或景象，许多人认为这种用法不正确)
If something such as a piece of music invokes a feeling or an image, it causes someone to have the feeling or to see the image. Many people consider this use to be incorrect.
e.g. The music invoked the wide open spaces of the prairies.
该音乐营造出了一幅大草原上宽广辽阔的景象。
4. 向(神灵)祈求(帮助或宽恕)
If someone invokes a god, they ask the god for help or forgiveness.
e.g. The great magicians of old always invoked their gods with sacrifice.
旧时一些有名的巫师经常以祭品祈求他们所供奉神灵的助佑。
verb
1. request earnestly (something from somebody)
ask for aid or protection
e.g. appeal to somebody for help
Invoke God in times of trouble
Synonym: appeal
2. cite as an authority
resort to
e.g. He invoked the law that would save him
I appealed to the law of 1900
She invoked an ancient law
Synonym: appeal
3. summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
e.g. raise the specter of unemployment
he conjured wild birds in the air
call down the spirits from the mountain
Synonym: raiseconjureconjure upevokestircall downarousebring upput forwardcall forth