Vanish
['vænɪʃ]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) decrease rapidly and disappear; 'the money vanished in las Vegas'; 'all my stock assets have vaporized'.
(verb.) cease to exist; 'An entire civilization vanished'.
(verb.) become invisible or unnoticeable; 'The effect vanished when day broke'.
盖尔校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To pass from a visible to an invisible state; to go out of sight; to disappear; to fade; as, vapor vanishes from the sight by being dissipated; a ship vanishes from the sight of spectators on land.
(v. i.) To be annihilated or lost; to pass away.
(n.) The brief terminal part of vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part; as, a as in ale ordinarily ends with a vanish of i as in ill, o as in old with a vanish of oo as in foot.
編輯:卢克
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Disappear, fade, pass, dissolve, fade away, melt away, pass away, be lost, be no more.
埃米尔校對
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Disappear, dissolve, melt, fade_away
ANT:Appear, approach, loom
手打:凯勒
解釋/意思:
v.i. to pass away from a place leaving it vacant or empty: to disappear: to be annihilated or lost: (math.) to become zero: (Shak.) to exhale.—n. Van′isher.—adv. Van′ishingly.—n. Van′ishment.—Vanishing point the point of disappearance of anything.
格雷西校對
例句/造句/用法:
- Then, as the creature's legs appear and its tail is absorbed, it begins to use its lungs, and its gills dwindle and vanish. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- You must begin your improvements on this house, observed Elinor, and your difficulties will soon vanish. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- The terrors and horrors of Cocytus and Styx, ghosts and sapless shades, and the rest of their Tartarean nomenclature, must vanish. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- All his dreams of conquest over disease a nd death seemed to vanish. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- She felt as if all her morning's gloom would vanish if she could see her husband glad because of her presence. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- All else is but dross, or evanescent dreams which vanish into oblivion in the light of a larger knowledge. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- He watched the lights vanish from George's sitting-room windows, and shine out in the bedroom close at hand. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Betteredge's last-left scruples vanished at that. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I tried to reach the porch of a great building near, but the mass of frontage and the giant spire turned black and vanished from my eyes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- From the time when he was left in the loft-room, he vanished. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Just one hint to you, Lestrade, drawled Holmes before his rival vanished; I will tell you the true solution of the matter. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Before the waiter had answered the call, the mechanic had vanished. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- On the fourth morning all vanished. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- My star vanished as I drew near: some obstacle had intervened between me and it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- A mole could trace it, and there it vanishes among the reeds. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- She is repressing symptoms favourable to the fit when she seems to take alarm at something and vanishes down the stairs. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I return in my grave-clothes, a pledge restored from the very sepulchre, and every one I speak to vanishes as soon as they hear my voice! 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- But on a nearer examination of them the similarity vanishes, and they are seen to be distinct characters. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- But drag me from this country; and my power of self control vanishes, nor can I answer for the violence my agony of grief may lead me to commit. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- He speaks no English and vanishes as quickly and as mysteriously after he has performed some valorous deed, as though he were a disembodied spirit. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Everybody else quickly vanishes too. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- It has plenty of spectral company in ghosts of trees and hedges, slowly vanishing and giving place to the realities of day. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The vanishing of the lady. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- I thought of the assistant's fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the cellar. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- I believe it is a mere fire of dry sticks, blazing up and vanishing. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- She bowed her head, vanishing from him under her conniving hat-brim. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- Looking back upon his own poor story, she was its vanishing-point. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
整理:康拉德