invocation

英 [ˌɪnvəˈkeɪʃn]

美 [ˌɪnvəˈkeɪʃn]

n.  (向神或权威人士的)求助; 祈祷; 调用; 启用

复数：invocations　

TOEFLTEM8

BNC.20987 / COCA.15173

牛津词典

noun

• （向神或权威人士的）求助；祈祷
  the act of asking for help, from a god or from a person in authority; the act of referring to sth or of calling for sth to appear
• 调用；启用
  the act of making a particular function start

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR (向神灵)求助,祈求宽恕;乞灵
  Aninvocationis a request for help or forgiveness made to a god.
  1. ...an invocation for divine guidance.
     祈求神的指引
• N-COUNT (公共集会的)祈祷，祷告
  Aninvocationis a prayer at a public meeting, usually at the beginning.
  1. Please stand and pledge the flag, after which Dr. Jerome Taylor will give the invocation.
     请起立对旗宣誓,之后杰尔姆·泰勒博士将做祈祷。

英英释义

noun

• the act of appealing for help
• calling up a spirit or devil
  Synonym:conjuringconjurationconjury
• an incantation used in conjuring or summoning a devil
• a prayer asking God's help as part of a religious service
  Synonym:supplication

双语例句

• Invocation: This one should be the most obvious.
  调用：这应该是最明显的一个。
• This is the invocation of an operation.
  这是对操作的调用。
• CRISPY can be used in many cases requiring decoupling of the client code from invocation protocols and service locations.
  在许多需要将客户端代码与调用协议和服务位置解耦的情况中，CRISPY都能得到很好的应用。
• Therefore, the adapter instantiates this new service capability and any implementation of this invocation functionality.
  因此，适配器演示了这种新服务能力与这种调用功能的任何实现。
• Technology focuses on matching interfaces and invocation protocols.
  技术的重点是匹配接口和调用协议。
• An example of such invocation of functionality in the receiving application is message-driven beans ( MDBs).
  接收应用程序中此类功能调用的一个示例是消息驱动的bean（MDB）。
• By encouraging asynchronous invocation, we decouple availability characteristics of consumer and provider.
  通过鼓励进行异步调用，我们可以分离使用者和提供者的可用性特征。
• In a service invocation, the consumer and provider must agree on the message formats.
  在服务调用中，使用者和提供者必须就消息格式达成一致。
• An Enterprise Service Bus is a broker that supports synchronous and asynchronous service invocation.
  企业服务总线是支持同步和异步调用的Broker。
• Outgoing service invocation using the bridge was not elaborated on this project.
  在本项目中没有对使用桥接的对外服务调用进行阐述。