1Create (an embryo) by fertilizing an egg.

她父亲49岁时，她母亲怀了她。

1. 1.1no object (of a woman) become pregnant.
   （妇女）怀孕
   five months ago Wendy conceived

   五个月前温迪怀孕了。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • No single treatment will be successful for everyone, but research has shown that the following simple, inexpensive treatments can help women conceive.
   • After three months of treatment, 20 women conceived.
   • And it was only on the final attempt in 2001 that the woman successfully conceived and went on to give birth in 2002.
   • Just because medical science has helped women conceive later and later in life doesn't mean it's a good thing.
   • Without exception, a woman can conceive at no other time than this approximately two-hour period, easily determined if her birth data are known.
   • Many women conceive before they have any idea they are pregnant.
   • It was also noted that a few women conceived after 5 unsuccessful months of treatment.
   • If she does not conceive naturally within 6-8 months, she should have tubal patency tests for the existing tube.
   • If a woman can conceive naturally when she is this age, how far should other women be assisted in pushing the boundaries of fertility?
   • The researchers believe the technique helps women conceive who had been unable to do so because of defects in their eggs.
   • He then became the first to help post - menopausal women conceive, prompting the Vatican to denounce his actions.
   • Pregnancy rates included any measure that assessed whether a young woman had conceived or given birth or whether a young man had impregnated a young woman or fathered a child.
   • Being on the contraceptive pill does not reduce the chances of becoming pregnant later, and most women do conceive from one month to one year or so after discarding contraceptives, she says.
   • Miss Evans is arguing that Mr Johnston gave his consent at the time they were created and cannot remove it now and that if a woman conceived naturally a man could not legally force her to get rid of the embryo.
   • Overall, 136 of the 221 women conceived during the study.
   • In a separate development, scientists have produced further evidence that smoking reduces the chances that a woman will conceive.
   • Keep in mind that while women are pregnant, that's approximately 9 months that women cannot conceive and bear another child.
   • These females conceived more male offspring, which may have been a consequence of having higher stress-induced serum testosterone levels.
   • We are told that Moshe is to tell Bnai Yisrael that when a woman conceives and gives birth, she will have Tamei status for a certain amount of time.
   • Nuharoo, Feng's wife, is outwardly pleasant, but when she cannot conceive and learns Orchid is pregnant, she undermines her.

   Synonyms

   get pregnant, become pregnant, become impregnated, become inseminated, become fertilized

2Form or devise (a plan or idea) in the mind.

这个水坝工程原先是在1977年策划的。

策划和实行都很高明的抢劫。

1. 2.1 Form a mental representation of; imagine.
   形成（设想）；认为；想象
   without society an individual cannot be conceived as having rights

   没有社会就无法设想个人享有权利。

   no object we could not conceive of such things happening to us

   我们无法想像这种事竟会发生在我们身上。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Terms limits were conceived as a way to safeguard against such possibilities.
   • These could be values conceived as residing in nature or in nature as representative of something still beyond nature, the in-someway supernatural.
   • I don't really want to believe it, it requires an enormous mental leap to conceive of all this stuff around me, the fabric of our society, is so fragile and ephemeral but this is what logic dictates.
   • Certain genres have traditionally been conceived as male territory, thereby limiting or repressing the expression of female writers.
   • And the wildest of imaginations could not conceive of Iraq as a strategic threat to the world's only superpower.
   • They should make that moral choice that they will not do anything which might be remotely conceived as supporting the regime.
   • The alternative is the dream conceived by our Founding Fathers, up to the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with an orderly society.
   • At its best, his show celebrates the capacity of our imagination to conceive of, then rationalise, the ridiculous.
   • But why should human rights be conceived as pre-institutional?
   • Risk is conceived as the possibility of triggering unexpected, unlikely, and detrimental consequences by means of a decision attributable to a decision maker.
   • Discourse is thereby conceived as a ‘generative mechanism’ rather than as a self-referential sphere in which nothing of significance exists outside it.
   • This is because anything which is pain feels like pain, so we cannot imagine or conceive of something that is really pain but does not feel like it.
   • If we look back in to the Old Testament, at books such as Leviticus, we see the word of God that could not possible be conceived as acceptable in modern standards.
   • It doesn't take a great stretch of the imagination to conceive of who ‘such people’ are.
   • The show has been conceived as including the three aspects of his life, as Einstein - the Man, the Scientist as well as the Humanist-Philosopher.
   • This question of how to conceive of human mental capacities is a vexed one.
   • Hume notes that we cannot imagine or conceive of the negations of typical mathematical theorems, but this seems to be a weak hold on the necessity of mathematics.
   • Normalcy, in this version, was conceived as full integration - without any of the surreptitious derogations and defaults of the past - into a liberalised European economy.
   • Furthermore, caring relationships between adults are generally conceived as relationships of equality, with each party able to exit.
   • One may conceive of individual representations while abstracting from those physical repercussions which accompany them or follow them, but do not constitute them.

   Synonyms

   imagine, envisage, visualize, picture, picture in one's mind's eye, conjure up an image of, think, see, perceive, grasp, appreciate, apprehend

   rare envision, ideate
2. 2.2literary Become affected by (a feeling)
   怀有（或抱有）（感情）；体验到（感情）
   I had conceived a passion for another

   我已对另一个人怀有强烈的感情。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • He afterwards commanded with distinction in the War of the Spanish Succession, though he conceived a lasting hatred of the duke of Marlborough, much to Tory delight.
   • Floyd Levin is a businessman who conceived an admiration for New Orleans jazz which led him to a parallel life as reporter, entrepreneur and jazz activist.
   • He conceived a love for the extensive grounds of Pembroke Lodge, with their handsome views of the surrounding country.
   • I will only say - for I have to say it - that in my early manhood I conceived a horror of him, and that I had good reason for the aversion which filled me.
   • Meanwhile, Mr Wilkins has conceived a huge dislike for his obnoxiously efficient chief clerk, Mr Dunster, and his conveyancing business is going to the dogs.
   • Separated from his fellow actors he encounters Titania, who conceives a passion for him.
   • The son of a country policeman, Archibald grew up in Warrnambool, Victoria, where he was apprenticed in the printery of the local paper and conceived an ambition to be a journalist.
   • Let's say instead of French interiors, which seemed so appealing in the museum, we've conceived a passion for dogs in art.
   • The landowner instantly conceives a dislike of the dog and demands that she be gotten rid of.
   • We all know in our hearts that this is where the horror is conceived and from there it is only a very short pathway to the birth of death, destruction and mayhem.
   • When Germany's Chancellor Otto von Bismarck conceived a system of social security for the industrial workers in the late 19th century he had a very clear objective in mind.
   • The first cad we meet - a man who has conceived a fantastic hatred for a small physical flaw in his wife - is plausible and shocking.
   • So long as no English king conceived the unrealistic ambition of conquering Scotland, there was no reason for that to change.
   • He conceives a great affection for his serving man, Joe Kelley, who delivers him frequent samples of Irish humor, while secretly plotting to frame Glenthorn as the ringleader of a tenant rebellion.
   • This was a setback because he had conceived an ambition to study physics with Boltzmann in Vienna.
   • As a boy in the 1920s he conceived an undying love for the ancient Roman poet Horace, and since then has learned nothing more about him or Rome.
   • Writing in the FT John Lloyd reports that the Guardian has conceived the ambition of becoming the newspaper of the contemporary - that is, liberal - establishment.
   • Brand himself is a cold fish and a nervous character, who conceives a murderous hatred for his junior officer.
   • Natalie Walter plays Marie-Louise as vulgar and irritating and it is hard to believe that she was a friend of Constance, nor that John Middleton could ever have conceived a passion for her.
   • In 1903, after an exalted correspondence, he met Blok, with whom he was to have a long ‘inimical friendship’, and for whose wife he conceived a complex passion.