evacuate
evacuate
[ɪˈvakjʊeɪt]
verb
[with obj.]
语源
[ɪˈvakjʊeɪt]
verb
[with obj.]
- remove (someone) from a place of danger to a safer place
使撤离危险地带；疏散，转移
several families were evacuated from their homes.
好几户人家被从家中疏散出来。
■leave or cause the occupants to leave (a place of danger)
（使）撤离（危险地带）
fire alarms forced staff to evacuate the building.
火警信号迫使员工撤离大楼。
[no obj.]nearly five million had to evacuate because of air terror.
由于受到空袭的威胁，将近500万人必须撤离。
■(of troops) withdraw from (a place)
（部队）从（某地）撤退；撤离
the last British troops evacuated the Canal Zone.
最后的一部分英国军队撤离了运河区。 - (technical)remove air, water, or other contents from (a container)
(技)抽空（容器）；排空
when it springs a leak, evacuate the pond.
如果向外喷水，那就排掉水池中的水。
[as adj. evacuated]an evacuated bulb.
被抽空空气的灯泡。
■empty (the bowels or another bodily organ)
排空（肠道或其他身体器官）
■discharge (faeces or other matter) from the body
排泄（粪便等）
■(figurative)deprive (something) of contents, value, or force
(喻)使失去内容（价值或力量）
he evacuated time and history of significance.
他使时间和往事都失去了意义。
语源
- late Middle English (in the sense 'clear the contents of'): from Latin evacuat- ('of the bowels) emptied', from the verb evacuare, from e- (variant of ex-) 'out of' + vacuus 'empty'
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