[VERB 动词]规避;逃避 If you evade something, you find a way of not doing something that you really ought to do.
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By his own admission, he evaded taxes as a Florida real-estate speculator...
他亲口承认自己在佛罗里达从事房地产投机生意时逃过税。
Delegates accused them of trying to evade responsibility for the failures of the past five years.
代表们指责他们企图逃避过去5年中多次失败应负的责任。
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[VERB 动词]回避,避开(问题、话题等) If you evade a question or a topic, you avoid talking about it or dealing with it.
[V n]
Mr Portillo denied he was evading the question...
波蒂略先生否认自己正在回避那个问题。
Too many companies, she says, are evading the issue.
她说太多公司都在回避这个问题。
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[VERB 动词]躲避;避开 If you evade someone or something, you move so that you can avoid meeting them or avoid being touched or hit.
[V n]
Under the pretence of lighting a candle, she evades him and disappears...
她假装点蜡烛,避开他消失了。
She turned and gazed at the river, evading his eyes...
她转身凝视着那条河,避开他的目光。
He managed to evade capture because of the breakdown of a police computer.
因为警方一台电脑瘫痪,他成功地躲避了抓捕。
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[VERB 动词](成功、光荣、爱情等)与…无缘 If something such as success, glory, or love evades you, you do not manage to have it.
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[LITERARY 文]
Happiness, which had been so elusive in Henry's life, still evaded him...
亨利生活中过去一直难以捕捉的幸福仍旧与他无缘。
When she sat down at her desk she found that the words evaded her.
当她在桌前坐下时,却发现自己不知道该说些什么了。
Oxford
evade/ɪˈveɪd; NAmEɪˈveɪd/verb1evade(doing) sth to escape from sb/sth or avoid meeting sb 逃脱;躲开;躲避◆For two weeks they evaded the press.他们有两周一直避而不见记者。◆He managed to evade capture.他设法逃脱了抓捕。2evade(doing) sth to find a way of not doing sth, especially sth that legally or morally you should do 逃避,规避(尤指法律或道德责任)◆to evade payment of taxes逃税◆She is trying to evade all responsibilityfor her behaviour. 她在试图逃避应为自己的行为承担的所有责任。3to avoid dealing with or talking about sth 回避,避开(处理或谈论某事)evadesth ◆Come on, don't you think you're evading the issue?得了吧,你不认为你是在回避这个问题吗?evadedoing sth ◆to evade answering a question避而不答某一问题4evadesb ( formal) to not come or happen to sb 想不出;不发生SYN
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◆The answer evaded him (= he could not think of it).他答不上来。☞see also
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evadee‧vade /ɪˈveɪd/ ●○○ verb [transitive]
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1not talk about something to avoid talking about something, especially because you are trying to hide something → evasion: I could tell that he was trying to evade the issue. The minister evaded the question.2not do something to not do or deal with something that you should do → evasion: You can’t go on evading your responsibilities in this way. You’re simply trying to evade the problem.► see thesaurus at
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3not pay to avoid paying money that you ought to pay, for example tax → evasion: Employers will always try to find ways to evade tax.4escape to escape from someone who is trying to catch you: She managed to evade the police. So far he has evaded capture.5not achieve/understand formal if something evades you, you cannot do it or understand itSYN elude: The subtleties of his argument evaded me.
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