英语单词 | evacuate |
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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. |
柯林斯星级 | ★★☆☆☆ |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [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. [V n] [be V-ed from]
evacuation
2 [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. [V n] [V]
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