英语词汇“elude”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

WORD ORIGINelude

Origin:

1500-1600 Latin eludere, from ludere ‘to play’

VERB TABLE

elude

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	elude
	he, she, it	eludes
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	eluded
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have eluded
	he, she, it	has eluded
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had eluded
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will elude
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have eluded

Continuous Form
Present	I	am eluding
	he, she, it	is eluding
	you, we, they	are eluding
Past	I, he, she, it	was eluding
	you, we, they	were eluding
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been eluding
	he, she, it	has been eluding
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been eluding
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be eluding
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been eluding

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

Despite a $25,000 reward on his head, he continues to elude the authorities.
Jones eluded the police for six weeks.
Lt. Forney managed to elude capture by enemy forces for several weeks.
The distinction between the two philosophies largely eludes me.
Till now a college degree has eluded her.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

Desperately, the Doctor tries a series of random landings in the hope of eluding their pursuers.
Fame she achieved; fortune eluded her.
Finally, he made a calculation, the nature of which eluded Dougal, and scribbled a number on the pad.
It was a mystery that had eluded the intellectual efforts of Isaac Newton and teased the mind of Albert Einstein.
Morphology of individual colonic pressure waves has eluded reliable classification.
Or will he have the success that eludes the smart boys of Tin Pan Alley?
The trappings of management elude us at first.

Longman Language Activatorto succeed in escaping from someone who is chasing you► escape

to succeed in escaping from someone who is trying to catch you: · It looks as if they've escaped. They're probably over the border by now.· So far the terrorists have managed to escape the police.escape from: · He ducked down an alley to escape from the mob that was chasing him.escape into/across/over etc: · Criminals generally know their neighborhood well, so it's not difficult for them to escape into the back streets.

► get away

to escape from someone who is chasing you, especially when there is no chance that you will be caught afterwards: · How could you let him get away!· Police believe the gunmen got away in a white Ford pickup.get away from: · Follow that car and don't let it get away from you.get clean away (=get away completely): · Detectives followed the man as far as the harbour, but then he jumped into a speedboat and got clean away.

► give somebody the slip

informal to escape from someone who is chasing you by tricking them or doing something unexpected: · Watch him very carefully - he might try and give us the slip.· I wanted to talk to her before she left the hotel, but she gave me the slip.

► throw somebody off the scent

to escape from someone who is chasing you or trying to find you by cleverly doing something that makes it impossible for them to know where you are: · He made the calls from different pay phones around the city to throw the police off the scent.

► shake off

to escape from someone, especially someone who has been chasing you for a long time, for example by hiding or by going faster than them: shake off somebody: · Mailer disappeared into a dark basement, hoping to shake off the gang.shake somebody off: · You're going to have to drive faster if you want to shake them off.

► make your getaway/make a getaway

to successfully escape after a crime, leaving no signs to show where you are: · Police have found the helicopters that the terrorists used to make their getaway.make a clean getaway (=to escape leaving no signs to show where you are): · The robbers hopped into a waiting car and made a clean getaway.

► elude

formal to cleverly avoid being found or caught by someone, especially for a long time: · Despite a $25,000 reward on his head, he continues to elude the authorities.elude capture: · Lt. Forney managed to elude capture by enemy forces for several weeks.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► always

· At the time I had wondered why this main theme somehow always eluded me, why the great events never materialized.· The balance of creativity and business skill needed to smoothly administer the operations would in fact always elude the pair.

► still

· So, even moderate fame still eluded him, and Nicholson remained unknown outside of a small Hollywood clique.· An invitation to Muirfield still eluded me.· But the most sought-after smell - the one which women find irresistible - still eludes the experts.· The perfect song still eludes me.· Nine singles and one album had been released, but success still eluded him.