| 词组 | evoke, invoke |
| 释义 | evoke, invoke Warnings against confusion of these verbs are sometimes given. The basic distinction between them is simple enough. Evoke is derived from the Latin evocare, "to call forth." Its usual senses in current English are "to elicit," "to bring to mind," and "to recreate imaginatively": • ... never fails to evoke a tumultuous response from its audiences —Current Biography, March 1968 • ... her twin hulls evoke images of the South Seas — Earl Arnett, Maryland Mag., Winter 1970 • Some movies have the mysterious power to evoke an era —Liz Smith, Cosmopolitan, December 1973 Invoke is derived from the Latin invocare "to call upon, appeal to." Among its many English senses are "to solicit," "to appeal to or cite as an authority," and "to implement": • ... is entitled to invoke the assistance of the court — James W. Coull & Eric W. Merry, Principles and Practice of Scots Law, 1971 • ... I foolishly invoked the name of Julia Child — Gael Greene, New York, 13 Sept. 1971 • ... as a way of invoking the death penalty —George Freeman Solomon, People, 17 Jan. 1977 Our evidence indicates that these verbs are almost always used in distinct ways, except that evoke sometimes occurs as a synonym of invoke in its sense "to appeal to or cite as an authority": • The name of Socrates is not one that would ordinarily be evoked by a defender of artists —Times Literary Supp., 6 Feb. 1943 • The names of Ascoli, Bréal, Gaston Paris, Pio Rajna are evoked —M. Sandmann, Modern Language Notes, December 1955 • ... in that essay I evoked the name of Flaubert and the example of Emma Bovary —Philip Roth, Reading Myself and Others, 1975 The contexts in which such usage occurs are standard, but the usage itself is still liable to criticism. Most writers would choose invoke in such contexts, and we recommend that you do so as well. |
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