flee

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To run away; to escape. intransitive
    — The prisoner tried to flee, but was caught by the guards.
  2. To escape from. transitive
    — Many people fled the country as war loomed.
  3. To disappear quickly; to vanish; to fleet. intransitive
    — Ethereal products flee once freely exposed to air.

词形变化

flees present,singular,third-person fleeing participle,present fled participle,past fled past fleed nonstandard,participle,past fleed nonstandard,past

词源

From Middle English flen, from Old English flēon, from Proto-West Germanic *fleuhan, from Proto-Germanic *fleuhaną, from Proto-Indo-European *plewk-, *plew- (“to fly, flow, run”).
Cognate with Dutch vlieden, German fliehen, Icelandic flýja, Swedish fly, Gothic 𐌸𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌷𐌰𐌽 (þliuhan). Within English, related to fly and more distantly to flow.
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