evade
verb- evade (doing) something
to escape from somebody/something or avoid meeting somebody 逃脫；躲開；躲避 For two weeks they evaded the press. 他們有兩周一直避而不見記者。 He managed to evade capture. 他設法逃脫了抓捕。 They narrowly evaded a police car which was approaching. 他們險些沒避開趕過來的警車。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- narrowly
- successfully
- attempt to
- try to
- manage to
- …
- evade (doing) something
to find a way of not doing something, especially something that legally or morally you should do 逃避，規避（尤指法律或道德責任） The defendant had tried to evade payment of taxes. 被告試圖逃稅。 She is trying to evade all responsibility for her behaviour. 她在試圖逃避應爲自己的行爲承擔的所有責任。 He never sought to evade his responsibilities. 他從未試圖逃避責任。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- simply
- carefully
- neatly
- …
- attempt to
- seek to
- try to
- …
to avoid dealing with or talking about something 回避，避開（處理或談論某事） - evade something
Come on, don't you think you're evading the issue? 得了吧，你不認爲你是在回避這個問題嗎？ - evade doing something
to evade answering a question 避而不答某一問題 Her response was simply to evade the problem altogether. 她的回答就是幹脆回避了整個問題。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- simply
- carefully
- neatly
- …
- attempt to
- seek to
- try to
- …
- evade something
- evade somebody (formal)
to not come or happen to somebody 使達不到；未發生在（某人）身上 see also evasion, evasive
Word Originlate 15th cent.: from French évader, from Latin evadere from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out of’ + vadere ‘go’.