a thought, idea, or principle
Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.
出自: B. Russell
The motorcycle..a system of concepts worked out in steel.
出自: R. M. Pirsig
The concept of ownership of land was unknown to them: land belonged to itself.
出自: D. Lessing
Great Expectations..was a concept restaurant, themed wittily around the works of Dickens.
出自: attrib.
She had no conception of the importance of this job.
如果把conception换做concept,就有点不太准确。
I wonder whether birds have the concept of climbing.
在这里用concept就比conception更加自然。