Escape

(noun.) the act of escaping physically; 'he made his escape from the mental hospital'; 'the canary escaped from its cage'; 'his flight was an indication of his guilt'.

(noun.) a means or way of escaping; 'hard work was his escape from worry'; 'they installed a second hatch as an escape'; 'their escape route'.

(noun.) an avoidance of danger or difficulty; 'that was a narrow escape'.

(noun.) an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy; 'romantic novels were her escape from the stress of daily life'; 'his alcohol problem was a form of escapism'.

(noun.) the discharge of a fluid from some container; 'they tried to stop the escape of gas from the damaged pipe'; 'he had to clean up the leak'.

(noun.) a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild.

(verb.) issue or leak, as from a small opening; 'Gas escaped into the bedroom'.

(verb.) run away from confinement; 'The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison'.

(verb.) remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion; 'We escaped to our summer house for a few days'; 'The president of the company never manages to get away during the summer'.

艾德蒙编辑

• Others again kept out of the way, hoping to escape either alternative. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• By no means, Alexandros; for by so doing we would close up the only avenue of escape left to us. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• It was easy to escape, or I should not have got away. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The author, being informed of a design to accuse him of high-treason, makes his escape to Blefuscu. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• To go thither, to escape across the Ohio river, were the first hurried outlines of her plan of escape; beyond that, she could only hope in God. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Let us escape at once. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• We have the right to escape if we can, I answered. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• The unfortunate inquirer staggered against a wall, a faint cry escaped her --O! 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Suppose the thief had got away by dropping from one of the upper windows, how had he escaped the dogs? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Throughout the whole period of Mr. Candy's illness, from first to last, not one word about the Diamond escaped his lips. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• She was as if escaped from some danger. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• In the case of the cologne, some molecules must have escaped from the liquid by the process of evaporation and traveled through the air to the nose. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The winter remained mild for an unusually long time--he could have escaped; but instead he remained in Moscow, making impossible plans, at a loss. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Opening the grenades under water and collecting the gas that escaped it was found that the average amount of carbon dioxide contained was about one cubic inch per grenade. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Elizabeth listened as little as she could, but there was no escaping the frequent mention of Wickham's name. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• The approximate loss was upward of five hundred killed, but few of the officers escaping. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• I left the agent with my mind relieved from all present fear of the Count's escaping me. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• If he renewed it (and I had reasons, shortly to be mentioned, for anticipating that he would), I might be certain of his not escaping me. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• As to escaping, what chances there were of escape? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I was trusted with the secret of Colonel Herncastle's plan for escaping assassination. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The condensed steam escapes at _w_. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Grimes' hairbreadth escapes from Bedouins, but I think I could read them now without a tremor. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• One horse had a heavy fall on the slippery rocks, and the others had narrow escapes. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The dangers and hair-breadth escapes of a life of adventures, instead of disheartening young people, seem frequently to recommend a trade to them. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In tending her patient, and in thinking of the wonderful escapes of the day before, her second day passed away not too slowly with Amelia. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• In some men it is half-conscious, in others a minor influence, but almost no one of weight escapes the contagion of it entirely. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The carbon dioxide thus produced within the body escapes into the atmosphere with the breath. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.

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