Elicit

(verb.) derive by reason; 'elicit a solution'.

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• Looking at his face, I longed to know his exact opinions, and at last I put a question tending to elicit them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• It is hardly to be marvelled at that such views should elicit warm protest, summed up in the comment: Mr. Edison and many like him see in reverse the course of human progress. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• This letter failed to elicit an answer from the Adjutant-General of the Army. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• An answer so different from the one he had expected to elicit, and was in the habit of receiving, staggered Mr. Bumble not a little. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Her set purpose of contradicting Miss Abbey point blank, was so far from offending that dread authority, as to elicit a gracious smile. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I had calculated with certainty on this step answering my end: I felt sure it would elicit an early answer. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I have proved you in that time by sundry tests: and what have I seen and elicited? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• It might be myself, or it might be my homely mourning habit, that elicited this mark of contempt; more likely, both. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• But after this he has no more to say; the answers which he makes are only elicited from him by the dialectic of Socrates. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The girl's beauty elicited many brutal comments and vulgar jests. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• For a moment there was no reply, and Tarzan added a few more ounces of pressure, which elicited a horrified shriek of pain from the great beast. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• According to the legend, this great discovery elicited extravagant demonstrations of joy. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• This exclamation was elicited by his having turned the lantern off again, and on again, and being visible at the foot of the third mound. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• It would have rankled in me more than it did, if I had not regarded myself as eliciting it by being so set apart for her and assigned to her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Before examining the room I cross-questioned the servants, but only succeeded in eliciting the facts which I have already stated. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• A mathematician and experimenter himself, he had a genius for eliciting discussion and research by means o f adroit questions. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• His determination to cram down their throats, or put 'bodily into their souls' his own words, elicits a cry of horror from Socrates. 柏拉图. 理想国.

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