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Evacuate Latin Sense English 7023.Evacuate 英 ɪ'Vækjʊeɪt]美 ɪ'Vækjuet

正面 7023.evacuate
英 [ɪ'vækjʊeɪt]美 [ɪ'vækjuet]

背面
释义:
vt. 疏散,撤退;排泄vi. 疏散;撤退;排泄
例句:
1. Army helicopters tried to evacuate the injured.军队直升机试图转移伤员。

salon 沙龙——沙龙
evacuate 疏散e-, 向外。-vac, 空的,词源同vacate, vacation.
evacuate (v.)1520s (trans.), from Latin evacuatus, past participle of evacuare "to empty, make void, nullify," used by Pliny in reference to the bowels, used figuratively in Late Latin for "clear out;" from assimilated form of ex- "out" (see ex-) + vacuus "empty" (see vacuum). Earliest sense in English is medical. Military use is by 1710. Meaning "remove inhabitants to safer ground" is from 1934. Intransitive sense is from 1630s; of civilian persons by 1900. Replaced Middle English evacuen "draw off or expel (humors) from the body" (c. 1400). Related: Evacuated; evacuating."

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