vanish
verbVerb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they vanish | |
| he / she / it vanishes | |
| past simple vanished | |
| past participle vanished | |
| -ing form vanishing |
- [intransitive]
to disappear suddenly and/or in a way that you cannot explain （莫名其妙地）突然消失 He turned around and vanished into the house. 他轉過身，消失在房子裏。 The magician vanished in a puff of smoke. 魔術師在一股煙霧中突然不見了。 My glasses seem to have vanished. 我的眼鏡似乎不翼而飛了。 He vanished without trace. 他消失得無影無蹤。
Extra ExamplesI turned around and she had simply vanished. 我轉過身時她已經沒了蹤影。 She vanished into the mist. 她消失在薄霧中。 a man who mysteriously vanished from his home last month 上個月從家中神秘失蹤的男子 The boys vanished without trace during a snowstorm. 那些男孩在一次暴風雪中消失得無影無蹤。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- just
- simply
- abruptly
- …
- seem to
- make somebody/something
- from
- into
- vanish from the face of the earth
- vanish from sight
- vanish into thin air
- …
- [intransitive]
to stop existing 不複存在；消亡；絕迹 the vanishing woodlands of Europe 不斷消失的歐洲林地 All hopes of a peaceful settlement had now vanished. 和平解決的全部希望現已化爲泡影。 All thoughts of leaving vanished from his mind. 所有離開的念頭都從他的腦海中消失了。
Extra ExamplesHer feelings of shyness rapidly vanished. 她的羞澀很快就消失了。 Many of these old cinemas have now vanished altogether. 很多這樣的老影院現今已經絕迹了。 Much of the land we loved has vanished forever. 我們所熱愛的土地許多都已經永遠地消失了。 The people who built this temple have long since vanished. 修建這座廟宇的人早已不在了。 This plant is vanishing from our countryside. 這種植物在我們的鄉村逐漸消失。 a way of life that has now all but vanished 現在差不多已經絕迹的生活方式 The canal crosses the site of an ancient lake, long since vanished. 這條運河穿過一個早已消失的古老湖泊。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- altogether
- completely
- entirely
- …
- from
Word OriginMiddle English: shortening of Old French e(s)vaniss-, lengthened stem of e(s)vanir, from Latin evanescere ‘die away’.
Idioms
disappear/vanish off the face of the earth
disappear, vanish, etc. into thin air
to disappear suddenly in a mysterious way （莫名其妙地）突然消失 She can’t just have vanished into thin air. 她不可能憑空消失了。 At a stroke she could make things vanish into thin air. 她用手碰到什麽就能讓它消失不見。
do, perform, stage a disappearing/vanishing act
- (informal)
to go away or be impossible to find when people need or want you 隐藏蹤迹；潛蹤隐迹 The cat had done a disappearing act. 那只貓玩起了失蹤。