| 释义 |
go to earth1(Of a hunted animal) hide in an underground burrow: the fox would go to earth and stay there till dark...- After a two hour chase it finally went to earth but a trap was set and the fox captured the next day and bagged so ‘it will again afford another day's sport’.
- I saw it go to earth as I got between two buildings on Foss Islands Road.
1.1Go into hiding: he’d gone to earth after that meeting...- An anti-hunting MP was forced to go to earth in the face of a noisy protest at one of his routine constituency surgeries by angry Yorkshire hunt supporters.
- Intelligence forces have complained that several high-profile suspects they'd been keeping an eye on have gone to earth and now can't be found.
- She had gone to earth in the pit opened by the torn-up roots of a fallen tree, and sprang out at his approach.
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