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Evacuate Evacuation People Means Area Empty Verb 动词

英语单词 evacuate
英美音标 [i'vækjueit]
中文释义 v.疏散,撤出,排泄
vocabulary简明 To evacuate is to flee, like how people leave an area when a hurricane is coming. It also means to empty something completely.
vocabulary扩展 If you have to evacuate your home, something horrible is probably happening, like a natural disaster. People evacuate when something like a tornado or act of terrorism makes their homes unsafe. To evacuate also means to empty completely, in the bathroom-oriented sense of evacuating (emptying) your bowels. Similarly, if a chemist empties and therefore creates a vacuum in a flask, she has evacuated the flask. When you evacuate, you clear out.
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[VERB 动词]疏散;使撤离;转移 To evacuate someone means to send them to a place of safety, away from a dangerous building, town, or area.
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  • They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country...

    他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。

  • Since 1951, 18,000 people have been evacuated from the area.

    自1951年以来,已有18, 000人撤离了该地区。

evacuation
  • ...the evacuation of the sick and wounded...

    伤病员的撤离

  • An evacuation of the city's four-million inhabitants is planned for later this week.

    计划在本周晚些时候疏散该市400万居民。

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[VERB 动词](尤指因为危险而)撤离,撤出,搬出 If people evacuate a place, they move out of it for a period of time, especially because it is dangerous.
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  [V]
  • The fire is threatening about sixty homes, and residents have evacuated the area...

    大火正威胁着大约60户人家,居民已经从该地区撤离。

  • Officials ordered the residents to evacuate.

    官员命令居民撤离。

evacuation
  • ...the mass evacuation of the Bosnian town of Srebrenica...

    波斯尼亚小镇斯雷布雷尼察的大撤离

  • Burning sulfur from the wreck has forced evacuations from the area.

    残骸上燃烧着的硫黄迫使人们撤出该地区。

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