(verb.) cite as an authority; resort to; 'He invoked the law that would save him'; 'I appealed to the law of 1900'; 'She invoked an ancient law'.
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He knew well that I should never willingly invoke the aid of the police against him. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯归来记.
And really, after a day or two of confusion worse confounded, it was delightful by degrees to invoke order from the chaos ourselves had made. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
To invoke your pity, said the lovely Jewess, with a voice somewhat tremulous with emotion, would, I am aware, be as useless as I should hold it mean. 沃尔特·司各特.艾凡赫.
I invoke your sympathy. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.
When it tries to do so by sumptuary legislation, nothing but mischief is invoked. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
But this fact only indicates the need of persistent care to see to it that the function of intelligence is invoked to its maximum possibility. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
But, Caroline---- Thus she invoked her daughter after a pause. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
We had invoked a spirit we could not lay. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
I spoke then readily: but a swarm of thoughts I had not anticipated nor invoked, rose dim at the words, making me sigh involuntarily. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.维莱特.
Simultaneously with this discovery on her part, her father discovered her, and invoked the echoes of Mincing Lane to exclaim 'My gracious me! 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
No doubt he had invoked the help of the Holy Spirit to subdue the anger I had roused in him, and now believed he had forgiven me once more. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
Sikes, invoking terrific imprecations upon Fagin's head for sending Oliver on such an errand, plied the crowbar vigorously, but with little noise. 查尔斯·狄更斯.雾都孤儿.
It was Dinah's mode of invoking the domestic Muses. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托.汤姆叔叔的小屋.
Conquerors have gone forth with the blessing of popes; a nation invokes its God before beginning a campaign of murder, rape and pillage. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
When hard pressed he always invokes this idol. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.