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evocative adj.引起回忆或唤起感情的 (1) 这种气味使人回想起学校来。(2) 他的谈话令人回忆起往昔的时日。 Evocative comes from the Latin word evocare, which means to "call out" or "summon." Think of a batch of cookies summoning a memory from your childhood. To summon something you need a voice, and indeed, the Latin word for voice is vocare. Other related words include the noun vocation, which means "a calling."

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英 [ɪ'vɒkətɪv] 美 [ɪ'vɑːkətɪv] (1) That smell is evocative of school.(2) His talk was evocative of the bygone days. Use the adjective evocative when you want to describe something that reminds you of something else. If your mom baked a lot when you were a kid, the smell of cookies in the oven is probably evocative of your childhood. 1[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]唤起回忆的；引起感情共鸣的 If you describe something as evocative, you mean that it is good or interesting because it produces pleasant memories, ideas, emotions, and responses in people.   [oft ADJ of n]  [FORMAL 正式]Her story is sharply evocative of Italian provincial life.她的故事让人清晰地回忆起意大利的乡村生活。...the evocative power of cinema.电影引起共鸣的力量evocatively...the collection of islands evocatively known as the South Seas.一个让人充满回忆的名为南海的群岛

英语单词	evocative
英美音标	英 [ɪ'vɒkətɪv] 美 [ɪ'vɑːkətɪv]
中文释义	adj.引起回忆或唤起感情的
英语例句	(1) That smell is evocative of school. (2) His talk was evocative of the bygone days.
中文例句	(1) 这种气味使人回想起学校来。 (2) 他的谈话令人回忆起往昔的时日。
vocabulary简明	Use the adjective evocative when you want to describe something that reminds you of something else. If your mom baked a lot when you were a kid, the smell of cookies in the oven is probably evocative of your childhood.
vocabulary扩展	Evocative comes from the Latin word evocare, which means to "call out" or "summon." Think of a batch of cookies summoning a memory from your childhood. To summon something you need a voice, and indeed, the Latin word for voice is vocare. Other related words include the noun vocation, which means "a calling."
柯林斯解释	1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]唤起回忆的；引起感情共鸣的 If you describe something as evocative, you mean that it is good or interesting because it produces pleasant memories, ideas, emotions, and responses in people. [oft ADJ of n] [FORMAL 正式] Her story is sharply evocative of Italian provincial life. 她的故事让人清晰地回忆起意大利的乡村生活。 ...the evocative power of cinema. 电影引起共鸣的力量 evocatively ...the collection of islands evocatively known as the South Seas. 一个让人充满回忆的名为南海的群岛

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