GRE:核心詞組之call forth

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call forth 引起
    釋義
    If something calls foth a situation or event, usually an unpleasant one, it begins a process which causes that situation or event to happen.
    例句
    High prices call forth more supply as vendors chase profit opportunities.
    GRE
    Just as economists were blind to the numerous cases in which the law of supply and demand left actual wants unsatisfied, so also many linguists are deaf to those instances in which the very nature of a language calls forth misunderstandings in everyday conversation, and in which, consequently, a word has to be modified or defined in order to present the idea intended by the speaker: “He took his stick—no, not John’s, but his own.”
    正如同經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)家對于許多案例中供求關(guān)系讓真實(shí)需要得不到滿足視而不見一樣,許多語言學(xué)家對于語言本質(zhì)所造成的日常用語中的誤解充耳不聞,在這種情況下,往往需要進(jìn)一步修飾或定義,才能準(zhǔn)確表達(dá)說話者的真正意圖:“他拿了他的棍子——不,不是約翰的,而是他自己的?!?BR>    注同義詞“bring forth”