英语词汇“fugitive”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	fugitive
释义	fu·gi·tive I. \ˈfyüjəd.iv, -ətiv\ adjective Etymology: Middle English fugitif, fugitive, from Middle French & Latin; Middle French fugitif, from Latin fugitivus, from fugere to run away, flee; akin to Greek pheugein to run away, flee, Lithuanian baugus timorous, and probably to Old High German biogan to bend — more at bow 1. : running away or intending flight (as from an enemy, a master, duty, or justice) : fleeing < a fugitive slave > < a fugitive debtor > < the new note served notice that neither the fugitive … diplomat nor his wife would be handed over — Wall Street Journal > 2. : moving from place to place : wandering < a fugitive theatrical company > < the fugitive clouds of the sky — K.K.Darrow > 3. a. : being of short duration : fleeting < the journalist … is concerned only with the fugitive moment — A.L.Guérard > b. : difficult to grasp or retain : elusive < thought is clear or muddy, graspable or fugitive, according to the purity of the medium — J.M.Barzun > c. : likely to evaporate : volatile < fugitive elements escape from the magma in rock crystallization > d. : likely to deteriorate : perishable < a great deal of valuable material is mounted on fugitive cardboard — All The King's Horses > e. : subject to change : not fixed < its membership is fugitive but the institution … requires continuity — O.W.Phelps > specifically : fading when exposed to light < many of these dyes … are so fugitive to light that dyed material if left uncovered in a mill room during a weekend … may be found to have faded — C.M.Whittaker & C.C.Wilcock > f. : likely to disappear or fall away; specifically : not permanently established — used especially of a botanical species 4. a. : scattered, infrequent, occasional < he has only to collect his fugitive pieces to have … a book of deep significance — T.V.Smith > b. : being of transient interest : ephemeral < the press ranges from the superficiality of fragmentary items in the most fugitive tabloid to the rich fare of the New York Times — William Albig > Synonyms: see transient II. noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English fugitif, fugitive, from Middle French & Latin; Middle French fugitif, from Latin fugitivus, from fugitivus, adjective 1. : one who flees or tries to escape: as a. : one who runs away from a master or employer or from uncongenial surroundings < a fugitive from a sweatshop — A.E.Stevenson b.1900 > b. : one who tries to elude justice < surrender of the fugitive for trial — R.G.Neumann > c. : one who flees or is forced to leave his country : exile, refugee < for the doubtful benefit of the political fugitive — Alona Evans > 2. : one who goes from place to place usually without a fixed purpose or direction : wanderer 3. : something elusive or hard to find < what muse but his can nature's beauties hit, or catch that airy fugitive called wit — Walter Harte > 4. a. : a dye that is not fast b. : an article colored with such a dye < cotton fugitives are simply dyed with alkali and common salt — G.H.Johnson >
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