elude
verb[T]
uk/iˈluːd/us/iˈluːd/eludeverb[T](NOT ACHIEVE)
formal
If something that youwanteludes you, you do notsucceedinachievingit:
使达不到;使做不成;使不能实现Thegoldmedalcontinuesto elude her.金牌继续和她无缘。
They hadminorbreakthroughsbutrealsuccesseluded them.他们取得了一些小的突破,但没有取得真正意义上的成功。
Failing and doing badly
- abjectly
- at-risk
- backbencher
- balls(something)up
- be on your beam endsidiom
- blow
- bomb
- collapse
- fight a losing battleidiom
- flog
- flog a dead horseidiom
- flop
- flub
- founder
- rot
- running on emptyidiom
- sclerotic
- screw
- smoke
- the rot sets inidiom
eludeverb[T](NOT BE CAUGHT)
to not becaughtby someone:
避开,逃避,躲避They eluded thepolicebyfleeing.他们纷纷逃走,避开了警方的搜捕。
Running away and escaping
- abscond
- back away
- back off
- bail out
- be at largeidiom
- be on the runidiom
- escape
- flee
- fugitive
- gaolbreak
- getaway
- go/be run to groundidiom
- leg
- scram
- shakesomethingoff
- shoot
- shoot through
- skedaddle
- slip
- throw
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Avoiding action
eludeverb[T](NOT REMEMBER)
formal
If apieceofinformationeludes you, you cannotrememberit:
使记不起来Iknowwho youmeanbut hernameeludes me.我知道你说的是谁,但就是想不起她的名字了。
Forgetting and forgetfulness
- absent-minded
- absent-mindedly
- absent-mindedness
- amnesia
- amnesiac
- anterograde
- blur
- bury
- erase
- featherbrained
- forget
- forget itidiom
- forgetful
- forgetfully
- radar
- remove
- retrograde
- retrograde amnesia
- rusty
- scatterbrained