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词汇 summon
释义 summon
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈsʌm.ən/ us /ˈsʌm.ən/

summonverb[T] (ORDER)


C2
to order someone to come to or be present at a particular place, or to officially arrange a meeting of people: 命令…到(某地);传唤;召唤;召集
General Rattigan summoned reinforcements to help resist the attack.拉蒂根将军命令增援部队协助抵挡进攻。
On 20 July, the town council was summoned to hear an emergency report on its finances.7月20日,镇政务委员会被召集起来听取有关其财务问题的紧急报告。
We were summoned to the headmaster's office. 我们被叫去了校长办公室。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to ask someone to come to you
callThe children called for him at night.
call outPlease avoid calling out the doctor unless it is an emergency.
send forSomeone has already sent for a doctor.
summonI was summoned to the headmaster's office.
summonsIf you are summonsed and do not attend court, you may be found guilty of contempt of court.
hailShe walked to the corner and hailed a cab.
Late last night, the French ambassador was summoned to the Foreign Office to discuss the crisis.昨晚深夜法国大使被外交部召见,商讨这起危机事宜。
After her month's sick leave, she was summoned to see the company's welfare officer.她休了一个月病假之后,公司的福利主管约见了她。
He summoned his troops.
We were summoned to the headmaster's office.我们被叫去了校长办公室。
She summoned us to admire her new greenhouse.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Inviting & summoning
ask
ask someone in
ask someone out
call
call (something) out
call someone in
call someone over
convene
friend
invite
invite someone in
invite someone over
invitee
plus one
recall
resummon
shout on someone
summons
uncalled
uninvited

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:


Planning, expecting and arranging

summonverb[T] (PRODUCE STRENGTH)


C2
to increase your courage or strength, especially with an effort: (尤指努力地)鼓起(勇气),积聚(力气)
It took me six months to summon (up) the courage to ask him out for a drink.我花了6个月时间才鼓起勇气约他出去喝一杯。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Trying and making an effort
A game
all out
assault
attempt
attempted
commitment
give something your best shotidiom
go after someone
go all outidiom
go down swinging/fightingidiom
go for someone
nose
shoot for something
shoot for the moonidiom
shoot the worksidiom
smarten (someone/something) up
smarten up your actidiom
spare
stretch
struggle

summon | American Dictionary


summon
verb[ T ]
us/ˈsʌm·ən/
to order someone come to a particular place, or to officially tell someone to be present:
The president summoned an emergency meeting of his advisers.
I have been summoned to appear in court.
To summon is also to find, call, or gather together something for use:
I couldn't summon any strength.
He summoned up enough energy to prepare a revision of his novel.
To summon is also to remember or imagine something:
He recollects the streets of Paris when he was a student and summons up the faces of fellow students.

summon | Business English


summon
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈsʌmən/us
MEETINGS
to officially tell someone to be in a particular place, or be present for a particular purpose:
be summoned to sthIntelligence officials were summoned to Capitol Hill today to talk about global security threats.
LAW
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Examples of summon


summon
The magistrate summoned the scrivener and asked him who the woman had been with when she had asked him to write a plaint.
He was incensed and summoned the villagers to appear before him.
They were summoned to the court to give advice.
He also summoned music therapists to engage in work with traumatised children living in cultures moving through massive periods of transformation.
The two together create local conflicts, which are already summoning the invisible fist rather than the transparent regulatory hand.
In the first interview all of the ' elders ' of the village (important male household heads of advanced age) were summoned.
Litigants and witnesses are made to wait outside till they are summoned into the presence of the court.
What he calls the 'demon of comparison ' needs, he warns, to be summoned with care and restraint (p. 12).
Such an attitude would not have been possible with the approach of the classical bourgeois revolutions, since these summoned the proletariat into the plan.
In either case, the intention seems to be that when summoned by voice or memory, he appears.
In this sense, summoning by name is the stronger form and a pre-positioned address term is the weaker form.
Experts were also summoned as witnesses, but not as expert witnesses.
Commoners had surprising access to their sovereign ; travellers describe a string of bells which citizens could ring and be summoned to the king's presence in order to register their grievances.
A phantasm has been summoned.
When the local magistrate summoned and questioned the plaintiff and asked him the route to the provincial capital where the office was, the plaintiff said he did not know.
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