| 单词 | escape |
| 释义 | es·cape I. intransitive verb 1. a. < the prisoner escaped from prison > < escape from boredom by traveling extensively > < eager to escape from the army and go back to his home town — Dixon Wecter > < the peculiar merit of this book is that it escapes from the conventional attitudes towards the conquest of Mexico — Times Literary Supplement > b. < gas escaping from a main > < clamp lips firmly so that no air can escape — Raymond Zauber > < as the fluid runs through the tile lines, it gradually escapes through the open joints — J.R.Dalzell > < her hat was jammed onto the back of her head, her hair escaping beneath the crumpled brim — William Faulkner > < the eggs develop in this pouch and the young escape when they hatch — G.E. & Nettie MacGinitie > c. of a plant 2. < the infection was so widespread that few escaped > < the hunters were so thick any game that escaped was lucky > < the crew escaped, as usual, but the boat was shattered to pieces — Norman Douglas > < he escaped momentarily from the heavy humors which had occupied his mind — T.B.Costain > specifically of an amateur wrestler transitive verb 1. < escaped the jungle to carry forward the struggle — James Atlas > < to escape the earth's gravitational pull — Edwina Deans et al > 2. a. < escape poverty and unhappiness > < the Greeks escaped the evils of priestly government — W.R.Inge > < firstborn babies characteristically escape the disease — E.W.Page > < set sail hastily to escape possible punishment for his share in the enterprise — American Guide Series: Maine > < our family seems to have escaped television addiction — John McNulty > < the name of the man escapes me entirely > b. < the more valuable articles escaped the eyes of the thieves > < the profounder subtleties of harmony and rhythm more often than not escape me — Clive Bell > < a veracity that often escapes the authors of historical fiction — American Guide Series: Oregon > < the myth is a transcendent idea that escapes the mental grasp entirely — H.M.Parshley > 3. a. < a smile may escape us in reading Honorius — H.O.Taylor > b. < a muffled moan escaped the boy — F.V.W.Mason > Synonyms: < escaped serious injury in the accident > < adroit legal maneuvering by his attorney enabled him to escape a prison term > < the fox escaped detection by the hounds > < written in secret to escape ridicule — Ellen Glasgow > avoid may be a near synonym of escape but stresses forethought and caution; it may indicate a keeping well clear of rather than a getting away when exposed to danger < Wang Lung avoided them lest some recognize him — Pearl Buck > < by pooling our difficulties, we may at least avoid the failures which come from conceiving the problems of government to be simpler than they are — Felix Frankfurter > < life is full of perils, but the wise man ignores those that are inevitable, and acts prudently but without emotion as regards those that can be avoided — Bertrand Russell > evade suggests cleverness, adroitness, artifice, or occasionally subterfuge in avoiding, escaping, or dodging < the king was so far away that his rules might be in large degree evaded if not defied — C.L.Jones > < the experience of life shows that people are constantly doing things which must lead to disaster, and yet by some chance manage to evade the result of their folly — W.S.Maugham > elude applies to escaping or evading by baffling, shifty, sly, strategic, or abstruse procedure or character < so some biologists, peering into their microscopes, observe remarkable events which somehow elude their colleagues — Martin Gardner > < the ruse to which Captain Lyon had resorted to elude the writ by transporting his prisoner to Illinois — Winston Churchill > eschew may indicate an avoiding or abstaining from as unwise or distasteful < he says what he has to say in excellent prose, eschewing all highflown and arty dithyrambs — New York Herald Tribune Book Review > < eschewing melodramatic shortcuts, in spite of the clamor from Rome, he broke the enemy by the only methods possible — starvation, attrition, and a slow, deadly scientific envelopment — John Buchan > < his fundamental respect for human personality makes him instinctively eschew the method of authority — M.R.Cohen > shun indicates active or pronounced avoidance, usually with abhorrence, aversion, or contemning as wrong or unwise < a desolate wilderness of maquis, marsh, and coastal swamp, infested with malaria, and shunned by people — George Kish > < to shun for his health the pleasures of the table — A.T.Quiller-Couch > Synonyms: < escaped from jail > < the first action of the war, in which the British ship … escaped by superior speed after a sharp fight — Edward Breck > < escape from his grief and loneliness — Allen Johnson > < escape embarrassment > fly, used in the sense of escape only in the present tense, adds to it the idea of haste, as of one in fear < fly, father, fly! for all your friends are fled — Shakespeare > < so absolutely flooded by the Hawkesbury and its tributaries, that the farmers are forced to fly for their lives — Anthony Trollope > flee implies haste and abruptness of escape, often suggesting not only fear but a certain consequent disorder in the departure < make a boy believe that real work is a thing to flee from — C.E.Montague > < founded by men who were fleeing from something very like this tyranny — Hugh Gaitskell > < the Irish who fled in the famine years — Liam Brophy > < everyone fled in summer to escape the swarms of mosquitoes — American Guide Series: North Carolina > decamp does not usually suggest escape as much as mere, although total, removal from one place to another or complete purposeful departure, applying usually only with a somewhat humorous connotation to the escape of one in confinement or one avoiding confinement or restraint < other tradesmen came to town, took orders, received advances of goods or money, and then decamped — C.L.Jones > < the expectation of his decamping as fast as he could from such disgraceful companions — Jane Austen > < might play them false and decamp with the entire £100,000 — F.W.Crofts > abscond puts emphasis upon the idea of secrecy, especially criminal secrecy, in an escape, withdrawal, or departure < a promoter with a salted silver mine sold claims to hundreds, at from $50 to $1000 a claim, and absconded with the proceeds — American Guide Series: Texas > < he absconded from college with his clothes and took refuge in a lonely farmhouse — Van Wyck Brooks > < abscond with the family silver > II. 1. a. < an escape from a mental hospital > < escape from the earth's gravitational pull > < how to make escape from his tight grasp > specifically b. < find no method of escape from pain and suffering > < a gradual escape … from the hideous experiences and whirling ideas of his youth — Times Literary Supplement > < the escape from this legal confusion — H.O.Taylor > < these islands have symbolized escape from a world that is too much with us — V.G.Heiser > < comedy is an escape not from truth but from despair — Christopher Fry > c. < trying to stop an escape of gas from a broken conduit > d. < a miserable life that provided no means of escape but alcohol > < can't think of anything more genuinely pleasurable these days than the pure escape offered you by a trip in a luxury liner — Richard Joseph > especially 2. a. archaic b. obsolete 3. obsolete 4. a. < his escape was first constant reading and then, when that did not satisfy, daydreaming > < his moments of intense contemplative vision are not moments of autointoxication or escape — Douglas Bush > < when he lost all his money there was no escape left and he finally went to work > b. c. d. 5. 6. < escape by rocket > III. 1. < asked to explain his escape methods after he got out of the concentration camp > < his work, for all its fantasy and superreality, was never an escape world: the threat of war, the dark emanations of the unconscious, the grotesque and the erotic, suffering and death, all find a place in his microcosm — Herbert Read > 2. < an escape clause > < the contract set the price of steel at a low figure but contained an escape provision for raising the price $2 a ton if the market went up generally > specifically < a union contract with a 30-day escape period > < forced the union to include an escape clause in the contract that was finally settled upon > IV. |
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