| 单词 | elude |
| 释义 | e·lude /ɪˈluːd/ verb [transitive] 1 ESCAPEto escape from someone or something, especially by tricking them 〔机敏地〕逃避，躲避 SYN avoid He eluded his pursuers by escaping into a river. 他逃到河里，甩掉了追踪他的人。2 ESCAPEif something that you want eludes you, you fail to find or achieve it 使找不到，使错过 She took the exam again, but again success eluded her. 她再次参加了考试，可还是没有及格。3 FORGETif a fact or the answer to a problem eludes you, you cannot remember or solve it 使不记得；把〔某人〕难倒 SYN escape The exact terminology eludes me for the moment. 确切的术语我一时想不起来。→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpuselude• Lt. Forney managed to elude capture by enemy forces for several weeks.• Finally, he made a calculation, the nature of which eluded Dougal, and scribbled a number on the pad.• Till now a college degree has eluded her.• Fame she achieved; fortune eluded her.• The distinction between the two philosophies largely eludes me.• Morphology of individual colonic pressure waves has eluded reliable classification.• Despite a $25,000 reward on his head, he continues to elude the authorities.• It was a mystery that had eluded the intellectual efforts of Isaac Newton and teased the mind of Albert Einstein.• Jones eluded the police for six weeks.• Or will he have the success that eludes the smart boys of Tin Pan Alley?• Desperately, the Doctor tries a series of random landings in the hope of eluding their pursuers.• The trappings of management elude us at first.Origin elude (1500-1600) Latin eludere, from ludere “to play”e·lude verbChineseSyllable them from by tricking someone escape or Corpus especially something, to |
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