单词 | evade |
释义 | evade intransitive verb 1. < submariners have always despised the need to evade in order to escape — S.D.Cutter > 2. < wisdom consists … in learning when to evade, when to stave off, and when to oppose head on — Irving Howe > < the adult who regresses to the infantile … evades — H.A.Overstreet > transitive verb 1. a. (1) < evaded the police and crossed the border into safety > < he … tried to evade her kisses — Winifred Bambrick > < guiltily evaded her accusing look > (2) < though she knew … her father would never be up again, she united with her mother in evading the fact — Ellen Glasgow > < prefers to evade home truths … by saying what he does not really mean — Va. Quarterly Review > b. (1) < I have a horror of the men who evaded service during the war — Rose Macaulay > < the French had been limited to a hundred thousand troops … but they had managed … to evade this limit — Upton Sinclair > < several very safe and easy methods of evading the law — Adam Smith > specifically < served a term … for evading his income tax — H.H.Martin > (2) < the traditional way of evading the difficulty … is to have recourse to … “vitalism” — A.N.Whitehead > c. < tried to evade his query but he was not to be put off > < tried to evade this nonsensical demand — Alfred Burmeister > 2. < the simple, personal meaning evaded them — C.D.Lewis > Synonyms: see escape |
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