| 单词 | elapse |
| 释义 | elapse (once / 557 pages) v When time passes by, you say it elapses. Four years elapse while you are in high school. Nine months elapse while you are in the womb. If two weeks have elapsed between your tennis lessons, there has been a two-week lapse between sessions. The word elapse comes from the Latin word elabi which means "to slip away." Time is one of those things that really does tend to slip away, unless you're sitting through a lecture on the nature of time. Then, it might feel like years elapse when really it is just a few minutes. WORD FAMILYelapse: elapsed, elapses, elapsing USAGE EXAMPLESIn Girmay's case, a year elapsed between his first intake interview and a second, more probing one that decided the outcome of his asylum request. Reuters(Dec 30, 2016) About five seconds elapse between the door knock and the shot fired. Seattle Times(Dec 28, 2016) About four hours elapsed between the mass shooting and the deaths of Farook and Malik. Washington Post(Dec 02, 2016) v pass by three years elapsed Syn|Hypo|Hyper glide by, go along, go by, lapse, pass, slide by, slip away, slip by fell, fly, vanish pass away rapidly advance, go on, march on, move on, pass on, progress move forward, also in the metaphorical sense |
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