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词汇 evocative
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Definition of evocative in English:

evocative

adjective ɪˈvɒkətɪvəˈvɑkədɪv
  • Bringing strong images, memories, or feelings to mind.

    使产生联想的;引起回忆的;触发感情的

    powerfully evocative lyrics

    具有很大感染力的歌词。

    the building's cramped interiors are highly evocative of past centuries

    那幢大楼的内部狭小空间极易使人想起过去的几个世纪。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • With little traffic on the roads, travelling by bike remains one of the most evocative ways to explore South America.
    • The study has that evocative smell of newly cut timber and wood glue about it as the components are brought in and leant against the wall.
    • His powerful and evocative voice and his memory will live on in our hearts.
    • Her singing voice, in contrast, is strong and helps create a striking and evocative work.
    • But as soon as you put on the headphones and start the audio tour, it becomes a powerfully evocative place.
    • Being the best, the stories are in the most vivid and evocative style of narration.
    • The image becomes abstract, but is evocative of specific styles of modernist painting.
    • The remixes here sample the evocative hooks and then simply loop them without the progression that is so much a part of most of his output.
    • As death draws near, evocative, atmospheric images are offered up to the reader.
    • Few symbols are as evocative or as powerful as those that remind us of our childhood.
    • I thought at the time that this was merely a moving and evocative metaphor for the loss of love.
    • Much has been made of the evocative power of this Icelandic quartet.
    • He gathered the dust near the site, and used it to create a hauntingly evocative piece.
    • I thought it made an evocative image and leaned into the open with my camera.
    • Now new generations can become acquainted with this powerful, evocative and moving story.
    • I certainly feel he has a way with words and was able to paint some very evocative images, as well explain some dense concepts.
    • This image is perhaps the most detailed and least evocative of those on show.
    • It is a response that is highly charged, evocative and expressed with an obvious degree of emotional insight.
    • Expect an evocative journey into the heart of darkness where the sins of the past are revisited in the present.
    • Sarah, 23, aims to bring back evocative memories for anyone with a passion for musicals.
    Synonyms
    reminiscent, suggestive, redolent
    resonant with
    expressive, vivid, graphic, powerful, haunting, moving, poignant
    rare remindful of

Derivatives

  • evocatively

  • adverbɪˈvɒkətɪvliəˈvɑkədɪvli
    • During the late 1960s, Smithson had created a number of memorable land-based artworks, including Spiral Jetty on Utah's Great Salt Lake and the evocatively volcanic Closed Mirror Square of 1969.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The conservative climate that prevailed five decades ago, with the songs and movies of those years - all these are evocatively captured in the letters and the illustrations in the book.
      • However, another source of that success has lain in the extent to which organizing among women and Hispanic and black workers has been linked, even if only evocatively, to a larger struggle for social justice.
      • Most evocatively, an image of a setting sun marks the passage of a single day throughout the course of the play, holding true to Aristotle's belief that all good tragedy should take place within 24 hours.
      • (She has it all take place in one evocatively described place, then wants a scene-change ten minutes from the end).
  • evocativeness

  • noun
    • Aristotle's Poetics contains a sentence that stands out for its simplicity and evocativeness: ‘Sophocles said that he himself created characters such as should exist, whereas Euripides created ones such as actually do exist’.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The whir of the machines, the changing tones, colors and degree of focus, the rhythmic progression of frames and the colloquial style of subtitles (with their occasional spelling errors) add greatly to the evocativeness of the whole.
      • I use this phrase here only because of its evocativeness and ability to capture perfectly the issues that I would like to address in this paper.
      • And they are consistent across media in content and emotional evocativeness.
      • Photographs convey their singularity and pragmatic making, but don't capture their sly humor and evocativeness.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Latin evocativus, from evocat- 'called forth', from the verb evocare (see evoke).

Definition of evocative in US English:

evocative

adjectiveəˈväkədivəˈvɑkədɪv
  • Bringing strong images, memories, or feelings to mind.

    使产生联想的;引起回忆的;触发感情的

    powerfully evocative lyrics

    具有很大感染力的歌词。

    the building's cramped interiors are highly evocative of past centuries

    那幢大楼的内部狭小空间极易使人想起过去的几个世纪。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • But as soon as you put on the headphones and start the audio tour, it becomes a powerfully evocative place.
    • Much has been made of the evocative power of this Icelandic quartet.
    • I thought it made an evocative image and leaned into the open with my camera.
    • Now new generations can become acquainted with this powerful, evocative and moving story.
    • I certainly feel he has a way with words and was able to paint some very evocative images, as well explain some dense concepts.
    • The image becomes abstract, but is evocative of specific styles of modernist painting.
    • It is a response that is highly charged, evocative and expressed with an obvious degree of emotional insight.
    • He gathered the dust near the site, and used it to create a hauntingly evocative piece.
    • His powerful and evocative voice and his memory will live on in our hearts.
    • This image is perhaps the most detailed and least evocative of those on show.
    • Her singing voice, in contrast, is strong and helps create a striking and evocative work.
    • With little traffic on the roads, travelling by bike remains one of the most evocative ways to explore South America.
    • The remixes here sample the evocative hooks and then simply loop them without the progression that is so much a part of most of his output.
    • Being the best, the stories are in the most vivid and evocative style of narration.
    • I thought at the time that this was merely a moving and evocative metaphor for the loss of love.
    • Expect an evocative journey into the heart of darkness where the sins of the past are revisited in the present.
    • As death draws near, evocative, atmospheric images are offered up to the reader.
    • Sarah, 23, aims to bring back evocative memories for anyone with a passion for musicals.
    • Few symbols are as evocative or as powerful as those that remind us of our childhood.
    • The study has that evocative smell of newly cut timber and wood glue about it as the components are brought in and leant against the wall.
    Synonyms
    reminiscent, suggestive, redolent

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Latin evocativus, from evocat- ‘called forth’, from the verb evocare (see evoke).

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