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单词 evade
释义 evade
\ə̇ˈvād, ēˈ-\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle French & Latin; Middle French evader, from Latin evadere, from e- + vadere to go, walk — more at wade
intransitive verb
1. : to slip away : give someone the slip
 < submariners have always despised the need to evade in order to escape — S.D.Cutter >
2. : to take refuge in evasion : use craft or stratagem in avoidance : avoid facing up to something
 < 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) : to get away from (a pursuer or enemy) by dexterity or stratagem : avoid capture by : shun or avoid contact or confrontation with : elude, escape, avoid
   < evaded the police and crossed the border into safety >
   < he … tried to evade her kisses — Winifred Bambrick >
   < guiltily evaded her accusing look >
  (2) : to avoid facing up to (a fact or condition)
   < 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) : to manage to avoid the preformance of (an obligation) : escape from doing or experiencing (something disagreeable) : circumvent, dodge
   < 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 : to fail to pay or to minimize (taxes) in violation of law
   < served a term … for evading his income tax — H.H.Martin >
  (2) : to get around (an intellectual obstacle)
   < the traditional way of evading the difficulty … is to have recourse to … “vitalism” — A.N.Whitehead >
 c. : to avoid answering directly (as a question or a questioner) : turn aside : parry
  < tried to evade his query but he was not to be put off >
  < tried to evade this nonsensical demand — Alfred Burmeister >
2. : baffle, elude : be baffling or elusive to
 < the simple, personal meaning evaded them — C.D.Lewis >
Synonyms: see escape
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