单词 | evade |
释义 | evade (ɪveɪd ) Word forms: evades , evading , evaded 1. verb If you evade something, you find a way of not doing something that you really ought to do. By his own admission, he evaded taxes as a Florida real-estate speculator. [VERB noun] Delegates accused them of evading responsibility for recent failures. [VERB noun] 2. verb If you evade a question or a topic, you avoid talking about it or dealing with it. The Minister denied he was evading the question. [VERB noun] Too many companies, she says, are evading the issue. [VERB noun] Synonyms: avoid answering, parry, circumvent, fend off 3. verb If you evade someone or something, you move so that you can avoid meeting them or avoid being touched or hit. Under the pretence of lighting a candle, she evades him and disappears. [VERB noun] She turned and gazed at the river, evading his eyes. [VERB noun] He managed to evade capture because of the breakdown of a police computer. [VERB noun] Synonyms: avoid, escape, dodge, get away from 4. verb If something such as success, glory, or love evades you, you do not manage to have it. [literary] Happiness, which had been so elusive in Henry's life, still evaded him. [VERB noun] When she sat down at her desk she found that the words evaded her. [VERB noun] Collocations: evade a question So we evade the question? Times, Sunday Times Initially, he evaded the question, explaining afterwards that he had misheard it. Times, Sunday Times It worries me for your sake that he has been evading your questions. The Sun She never evaded any question you asked, unlike politicians today, and she loved getting into a good argument. The Sun When we couldn't avoid people, we evaded their questions and became adept at changing the subject. Christianity Today Both were convicted of evading duty at the Old Bailey. The Sun (2015) Four men aged 29 to 41 have been bailed on suspicion of evading duty. The Sun (2014) He had pleaded guilty in 2008 to evading duty. The Sun (2014) And he has spent most of the last ten years wriggling to evade justice. The Sun The bereaved have reacted with understandable anger, seeing it as a brazen attempt to evade justice. Times,Sunday Times Is it so all the cronies of the high and mighty have time to evade justice by passing away? The Sun Bigger crooks may lurk who continue to evade justice. Times, Sunday Times It should not allow war's monsters to evade justice. The Sun Teams don't want players who evade responsibility, who are deceitful, spineless, throw in the towel. Times, Sunday Times None should seek to evade responsibility for decisions jointly taken. Times, Sunday Times Such political decisions are not easy, but no politician can evade responsibility for taking those decisions. Times, Sunday Times In recent years a number of politicians have behaved disgracefully and then compounded their offences by trying to evade responsibility. Times, Sunday Times We all prefer to evade responsibility for crimes committed in our name and to pin the blame on 'the nation', 'the party' or some other nebulous concept. Times, Sunday Times Friends insisted yesterday that he was seeking to evade scrutiny of his private life rather than cover up improper use of expenses. Times, Sunday Times Councils across the country are seeking to evade scrutiny by restricting media access to meetings. Times, Sunday Times She sought to evade scrutiny but scrutiny caught up with her. Times, Sunday Times The bank has been put under formal criminal investigation in France amid allegations that it helped thousands of its wealthy clients to evade tax. Times, Sunday Times (2015) It is avoiding rather than evading tax. The Sun (2015) Those who are found to have evaded tax on their offshore assets will have to pay the tax plus interest. Times, Sunday Times (2008) Even small fishing boats in the middle of the ocean will no longer be able to guarantee that they can evade the authorities. Times, Sunday Times But if anybody did manage to get out, they would have no trouble evading the authorities. Times, Sunday Times Amid the shock and revulsion at her actions, attention has focused on how she evaded the authorities for so long; how she and her family had virtually disappeared from view. Times, Sunday Times It was a fly-by-night existence as they evaded the authorities, full of rapid midnight descents down hotel fire escapes. Times, Sunday Times He had developed various techniques for evading the authorities. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Yet, the two evade the law by escaping into the forest. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In the past the smart ones were adjudged to be those who evaded the laws. Times,Sunday Times Nor, more generally, was he concealing or evading the law relating to the distribution of assets of a marriage upon its dissolution. Times, Sunday Times However, territorial governments evaded this law by use of indenture laws. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Many of these were used to evade the law's intended purpose. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They evade the police and customs. Times, Sunday Times (2014) This is how he managed to evade the police for so long. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Translations: Chinese: 逃避 Japanese: 逃れる |
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