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词汇 escape
释义 escape
verb
uk /ɪˈskeɪp/ us /ɪˈskeɪp/

escapeverb (GET AWAY)


B1[ I or T ]
to get free from something such as a prison or cage, or from someone who will not allow you to leave:
Two prisoners have escaped.两个犯人逃走了。
escape fromA lion has escaped from its cage.一头狮子逃出了兽笼。
She was kidnapped but escaped her captors.
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to forget something
forgetI can't believe I've forgotten her birthday!
slip your mindI meant to tell you that he'd phoned, but it completely slipped my mind.
be on the tip of your tongueOh, what was that movie called? It's on the tip of my tongue.
escape youThe name of her book escapes me at the moment.
blank outThe dinner where he admitted the affair was so painful that I must have blanked it out.
[ I or T ]
to get away from a situation, place, or person that you do not like or that limits your freedom:
escape fromShe would escape from reality by losing herself in books.
He longed to escape the small town where he grew up.
In order to escape capture, he fled to the mountains.为了免遭俘虏,他逃到了山里。
He had to jump out of an upstairs window to escape.他不得不从楼上的窗户跳出去逃命。
Both children escaped unharmed from the burning building.两个孩子从着火的大楼里逃了出来,毫发未伤。
Refugees have been pouring into neighbouring countries to escape the civil war.难民大量涌入邻国以逃避内战。
In the end she left home just to escape the tyrannical rule of her mother.最后她离家出走,为的只是逃脱母亲专横的管制。
Few of us entirely escape our childhoods.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Running away and escaping
abscond
abscond from somewhere
abscond with someone/something
back away
back off
elopement
elude
escape from someone/something
escape route
escapology
heel
leg
loose
run away
runaway
scarce
scarper
scram
throw
underground

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Freedom to act

escapeverb (AVOID)


[ I or T ]
to avoid something bad happening to you:
escape punishmentNone of the people responsible should be allowed to escape punishment.
escape injuryShe was lucky to escape serious injury.她真是万幸,逃过一劫,没有受重伤。
narrowly escapeHe narrowly (= only just) escaped a fine.他差一点被罚款。
He escaped being made redundant because the company reassigned him.
escape lightlyThe southeast region escaped relatively lightly (= did not suffer much) in the storms.
The sector has remained fairly buoyant during the recession, but it has not escaped entirely.
[ T ]
to avoid being noticed by someone:
escape someone's noticeNothing important escapes her notice.
escape someone's attentionThe potential of this substance has not escaped the attention of the pharmaceutical industry.
escape scrutinyNothing she does escapes media scrutiny.
The historic nature of the vote escaped no one (= everyone was aware of it).
The main character in the novel miraculously escapes death many times.
A man who escaped prosecution for more than 14 years was found guilty of murder yesterday thanks to DNA evidence.
He won't escape so easily next time, against a much stronger opponent.
Just in case the point somehow escaped anyone in the audience, he repeated it again more loudly.
The spores can live in the ground for years and are so tiny that they can easily escape detection.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Avoiding action
abrogate
abrogation
avoid
avoid something like the plagueidiom
avoidance
elude
end-run
eschew
evade
evader
evasion
fiddle
insure
run for the hillsidiom
shirk
short circuit
shrink from something
shy away from something
steer
welch

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Not punishing & reducing punishment
Experiencing and suffering
Unaware

escapeverb (COMPUTER)


[ I ] computing specialized
to press the key on a computer keyboard that allows you to leave a particular screen and return to the previous one or to interrupt a process: 退出,结束(计算机运行程序)
escape fromEscape from this window and return to the main menu.从这个窗口退出,返回主菜单。
[ T ] computing specialized
in coding(= writing instructions for a computer), to tell a computer that a particular character(= letter, number, etc.) or string(= series of characters) should be understood in a different way to normal, by putting a particular symbol before it:
Where an attribute value is a string, you must use double backslashes ( \\\\ ) to escape characters, such as \\\ for a newline or \\\\uxxxx for a Unicode character.
There are two special characters you need to escape this string: the single quote (') and the back slash (\\).
See also
escape character
escape sequence
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Operating computers
admin
administrator
aliasing
always-on
back someone up
exit
left-click
live streamer
logout
loop
malicious
maximize
surf
tap
unmounted
untag
untagged
untechnical
untick
zip file

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Computer programming & software

Idioms


there's no escaping the fact
someone's/something's name escapes you
escape
noun
uk /ɪˈskeɪp/ us /ɪˈskeɪp/

escapenoun (GET FREE)


C1[ C or U ]
the act of successfully getting out of a place or a dangerous or bad situation: 逃脱,逃离
make your escapeHe made his escape on the back of a motorcycle.他骑上摩托车逃之夭夭。
escape route She looked around for a possible escape route.
have a narrow escapeThey had a narrow escape (= only just avoided injury or death) when their car crashed.撞车事故中,他们九死一生,逃过一劫。
See also
a narrow escape
[ C ]
a loss that happens by accident: 漏出;泄漏;溢出
an escape of radioactivity放射线泄漏
We've got all the exits covered, so they've no chance of escape.
It was a daring escape.
He told the extraordinary story of his escape.他讲述了他离奇的逃亡经历。
She gave a hair-raising account of her escape through the desert.她讲述了自己穿越沙漠的脱险经历。
It sounds as if you had a lucky escape .
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Running away and escaping
abscond
abscond from somewhere
abscond with someone/something
back away
back off
elopement
elude
escape from someone/something
escape route
escapology
heel
leg
loose
run away
runaway
scarce
scarper
scram
throw
underground

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Losing and loss

escapenoun (FORGET)


B2[ S ]
something that helps you to forget about your usual life or problems: (对现实的)逃避,回避;解脱之物
escape fromRomantic novels provide an escape from reality.浪漫小说提供了一种逃避现实的方式。
[ S ]
a holiday that takes you away from your ordinary life, or a place where you go on holidays like this:
The Bahamas are ideal for a tranquil, romantic holiday escape.
Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket are the favourite escape for many New Yorkers.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Creating a distraction
create a diversion
distract
distract attention from something
distract someone from something
distracting
distraction
diversion
diversionary tactic
divert
divert attention from something
mind
put
put someone off their strideidiom
put something off
rabbit hole
sidetrack
smoke and mirrors
subject
take someone out of himself/herself
take someone's mind off somethingidiom

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Tourism & holidays
Time off

escapenoun (COMPUTER)


[ U ] computing specialized(alsoescape key); (written abbreviationEsc)
the key on a computer keyboard that allows you to leave a particular screen and return to the previous one or to interrupt a process: (计算机键盘上的)退出键
Press Esc to return to the main menu.按退出键返回主菜单。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Operating computers
admin
administrator
aliasing
always-on
back someone up
exit
left-click
live streamer
logout
loop
malicious
maximize
surf
tap
unmounted
untag
untagged
untechnical
untick
zip file

escape | American Dictionary


escape
verb[ I/T ]
us/ɪˈskeɪp/
to become free or get free from, or to avoid something:
[ I ]to escape from prison/a burning house
[ T ]The book’s faults have not escaped the notice of (= not been avoided being noticed by) critics.
escape
noun[ C/U ]
us/ɪˈskeɪp/
the act or possibility of becoming free or getting away from a place where you are kept esp. by force, or of avoiding a dangerous situation:
[ C ]The blast knocked me down – it was a narrow escape (= I was almost hurt badly).
An escape is also an unintentional loss:
[ C ]an escape of radioactive fuel

escape | Business English


escape
noun[ U ]
 ITuk /ɪˈskeɪp/us(oftenEscape); (alsoescape key); (abbreviationEsc)
the key on a computer keyboard which allows you to leave a particular screen and return to the previous one or to interrupt a process:
Press Escape to return to the main menu.
To exit the program, use Esc.

Examples of escape


escape
Fourth, the experience strikes us as ineffable, that is, though you experience it as possessing various qualities, the exact qualitative character escapes description in words.
It protected it by excluding from its realm the cases that seemed to escape multiple concordant testimony.
The first one is based on the solution of the radiation transfer equation and the second one is based on the escape factor formalism.
Immediately before slugs were introduced, the drip irrigation system was removed as it could have provided an escape route for the slugs or beetles.
She has no way of escape and now has to listen to their side of things, the viewpoint of the older generation.
I suspect that these escape routes will prove to be a useful addition to our toolkit.
The two models converge inside the rever sal, but diverge when z > 1, with the parabolic model not allowing particles to escape.
The strength of the notion of the cultural biography, in my mind, is that it provides us with a way to escape from these preoccupations.
But can we really handle the fleeting nature of sound, the escape of sound(scapes)?
Or it escapes explanation in realist terms if a world is defined exclusively in terms of entities related in space and time.
So there is no escaping from it: scientific language has to be tackled and mastered if scientific thought is to be followed.
The power of critical thoughts was significantly related to wanting to escape from them, feeling trapped by them and wanting to fight them.
The negative approach is to defend it by showing that it represents one way of escaping a number of problems facing standard egalitarian justification.
Before an epiphyte was removed from the host tree, we enclosed it in a plastic bag to prevent highly mobile animals from escaping.
This enables them to include many cases that do not require it - such as the elicitation of escape by a conspecific's alarm call.
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Collocations withescape


escape

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attempted escape
Put in terms of its generic itinerary, we might say that the title character embodies the implications of the opera's attemptedescape from the language of melodrama.
avenue of escape
He has opened up a possible avenueofescape for himself.
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easy escape
That gives an easyescape route for the wily offender.
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