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動詞

conjure up (三人称単数 現在形 conjures up, 現在分詞 conjuring up, 過去形および過去分詞形 conjured up)

1. (transitive) To create or produce something, seemingly magically.
2. (transitive) To call up or command a spirit or devil by an incantation.
3. (transitive) To generate (an image または an idea) in one's mind.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 252:

     Like most persons utterly unused to deception, she could not imagine how it was to be managed; and her thoughts conjured up every probable and improbable embarrassment that might occur.

   • 2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 2, page 164:

     Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?

   • 2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC‎^[2]:

     For his part, he told the New York Times in 2019 that he didn’t feel he could conjure up the requisite malevolence to play certain roles.