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

WORD ORIGINevacuate

Origin:

1300-1400 Latin past participle of evacuare, from vacuus ‘empty’

VERB TABLE

evacuate

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	evacuate
	he, she, it	evacuates
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	evacuated
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have evacuated
	he, she, it	has evacuated
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had evacuated
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will evacuate
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have evacuated

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

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

A five-block area had to be evacuated following the discovery of 500 pounds of dynamite in a house.
Terra, 60 miles southwest of Salt Lake City, was evacuated as the fires threatened to spread.
The stock exchange was quickly evacuated after receiving a bomb threat.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

Besides, he knew in his heart of hearts evacuating Heymouth was the right thing to do.
He then waited until another officer took control before allowing himself to be evacuated.
Last month, 400 Pittsburg residents had to be evacuated when a train hauling military explosives derailed.
Local residents were evacuated in case there needed to be a controlled explosion.
Part of the village was evacuated while Army bomb experts made safe the device.
Police evacuated the immediate area and began a meticulous search for other bombs after the second explosion.
We had to evacuate because they were afraid it was going to crack.
Why the chamber should have decided to evacuate after half-a-million years stability remains a matter of conjecture.

Longman Language Activatorto make everyone leave a place► clear

to empty a place by asking the people in it to leave: · Police cleared the building and carried out a controlled explosion.· The area around the palace had been cleared for the parade.

► evacuate

if the police or the authorities evacuate a place, they order everyone in it to leave, especially because it may be dangerous: · A five-block area had to be evacuated following the discovery of 500 pounds of dynamite in a house.· Terra, 60 miles southwest of Salt Lake City, was evacuated as the fires threatened to spread.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► area

· Police cordoned off and evacuated the area, which is just yards from the Brent Cross Shopping Centre.· Police evacuated the immediate area and began a meticulous search for other bombs after the second explosion.· A leak of plutonium could mean evacuating a large area.· A landslide also blocked the Cedar River southeast of Seattle, he said, and officials were considering evacuating area residents.· They were still evacuating the area when a device exploded at the Northern Bank.· In another reprocessing plant, an air monitor alarmed, and as a precaution, personnel evacuated the area.· Police evacuated the area before the bomb exploded, causing only minor damage.

► city

· I was dispatched to the grammar school, which itself had been evacuated from the big city to a small town.· Indeed, rebel movements prompted international relief workers to evacuate the city Friday, fearing impending violence.· Hostilities resumed when the order came to evacuate the cities.

► family

· The boys were evacuated by the Rothschild Family and billeted in Britain.· She wanted to evacuate all of her family from the North.

► home

· More than 600 people were evacuated from their homes in Norfolk and eight bungalows collapsed after the sea washed away their foundations.· About 30 police of whom a third were armed surrounded the semi-detached house and evacuated neighbouring homes.· Residents within line of fire were evacuated from their homes and advised to take refuge at the Shuttle and Loom pub.· In Mold, Flintshire, 100 people were evacuated from their homes.· Around 100 people were evacuated from their homes and other premises in the area around the burning factory.· At Bedeford, north Devon, people were evacuated from their homes as a dam holding back flood water overflowed.· Several families were evacuated from their homes in Ulster last night after a bomb alert.

► people

· Authorities began evacuating people in the state of Oaxaca as the hurricane battered villages with high winds and intense rain.· A: I meant just-I meant only that the only means I could evacuate the people would be a hand grenade.· Faced with conflicting advice from radio stations and the state authorities about whether to evacuate, many people just fled.· A series of eruptions there in 1999 caused officials to evacuate hundreds of people.

► police

· The police evacuated the theatre and the prefect of police banned the show.

► resident

· A landslide also blocked the Cedar River southeast of Seattle, he said, and officials were considering evacuating area residents.

VERB► force

· This would force the military to evacuate.· He said that relief workers and soldiers were now forcing people to evacuate.· In fact so bad has the problem become that whole Alpine villages are being forced to evacuate themselves when the warnings sound.· At the lowest point in David's fortunes he is forced to evacuate Jerusalem.