escape

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ɪˈskeɪp/|/ɪk-/    美 /ɪˈskeɪp/|/ə-/|/ɛ-/|/ɛk-/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation. countable,uncountable
    — The prisoners made their escape by digging a tunnel.
  2. Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation. countable,uncountable
  3. Something that has escaped; an escapee. countable,uncountable
    — But what about the flocks of Waxbills? Are they escapes gone feral, or are they spreading from Africa?
  4. A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life. countable,uncountable
  5. escape key countable,uncountable
  6. The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal). countable,uncountable
    — You forgot to insert an escape in the datastream.
  7. A successful shot from a snooker position. countable,uncountable
  8. A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility. countable,uncountable
  9. That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake, oversight, or transgression. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — I should have been more accurate, corrected all those former escapes.
  10. A sally. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — thousand escapes of wit
  11. An apophyge. countable,uncountable
  12. A cultivated plant found growing as though wild, dispersed by some agency. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To get free; to free oneself. intransitive
    — The prisoners escaped by jumping over a wall.
  2. To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from. transitive
    — He only got a fine and so escaped going to jail.
  3. To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment. intransitive
    — Luckily, I escaped with only a fine.
  4. To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by. transitive
    — The name of the hotel escapes me at present.
  5. To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the same context, often by prefixing with another character. transitive
    — When using the "bash" shell, you can escape the ampersand character with a backslash.
  6. To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.

词形变化

escapes present,singular,third-person escaping participle,present escaped participle,past escaped past escapes plural

词汇关系

近义词
break loose take it on the lam
衍生词
garden escape pump escape

词源

词源 1
From Middle English escapen, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French escaper ( = Old French eschaper, modern French échapper), from Vulgar Latin *excappāre (“to escape a garment, get out of one's clothing”, literally “to free oneself from one's cape”), from Latin ex- (“out”) + Late Latin cappa (“cape, cloak”). Cognate with escapade. Also doublet of scape.
词源 2
From Middle English escapen, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French escaper ( = Old French eschaper, modern French échapper), from Vulgar Latin *excappāre (“to escape a garment, get out of one's clothing”, literally “to free oneself from one's cape”), from Latin ex- (“out”) + Late Latin cappa (“cape, cloak”). Cognate with escapade. Also doublet of scape.
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