Definition of escape in English:

escape

verb ɛˈskeɪpɪˈskeɪpəˈskeɪp

1no object Break free from confinement or control.
逃跑，逃脱
two burglars have just escaped from prison
两名盗窃犯刚才越狱逃跑了。
Example sentencesExamples
- In 1772 Britain declared that any escaped slave who came to Britain would automatically become free.
- If ever I needed to escape into fantasy fiction that time is now.
- If it hadn't been for the collar, she could easily have broken free and escaped.
- And of course if you're not particularly happy when you're a child, being able to escape into a book is a wonderful thing.
- Because of its invasive nature, it often becomes a pest within an ornamental garden and readily escapes.
- Maybe the news makes everyday life too depressing, and we want to escape into the fantasies of childhood play-acting.
- She told police the attacker tied her up but that she managed to struggle free and escape into the bush.
- He said pollen would not escape into the local environment because sugar beet did not flower until after it had been harvested.
- Hundreds of prisoners have been given the opportunity to escape into a world of learning thanks to a Horwich-based training specialist.
- After ten minutes, the boy managed to break free and escape, although the man initially gave chase.
- Once again, Roger Black, a convicted killer who escaped from an Iowa prison, is on the loose.
- Living in the Yorkshire Dales, it is still just possible to escape into a world of peace and tranquillity.
- What will happen when one of these fish escapes into the wild?
- She sought solitude and tried to escape into daydreaming.
- I followed silently behind the two guards, debating within my mind whether to break free and escape, or stay near to him.
- However, on a drab and grey day like this, the imagination is a better place than many others to escape into.
- He eventually left by a fire door, triggering an automatic alarm, but had escaped by the time police arrived.
- Two men arrested on suspicion of violent disorder are currently in custody along with a woman arrested on suspicion of harbouring escaped prisoners.
- One day when Chris was at work and the kids were at school, two convicts who had escaped from jail broke into the Rodgers home in an attempt to hide from the police.
- The temptation is enormous to escape into fantasy, or close our eyes and pretend nothing has changed.
- The man, a convict who has escaped from a prison ship, scares Pip into stealing him some food and a file to grind away his leg shackle.
- He was hurt in the scuffle but managed to escape into an area of woodland.
Synonyms
get away, get out, run away, run off, break out, break free, get free, break loose, make a break for it, bolt, clear out, flee, fly, take flight, make off, take off, decamp, abscond, take to one's heels, make a/one's escape, make good one's escape, make a/one's getaway, beat a (hasty) retreat, show a clean pair of heels, run for it, make a run for it
disappear, vanish, slip away, steal away, sneak away
get out of someone's clutches
informal bust, do a bunk, do a moonlight flit, cut and run, skedaddle, skip, head for the hills, do a disappearing/vanishing act, fly the coop, take French leave, scarper, vamoose, hightail it, leg it
British informal do a runner, hook it
North American informal take a powder, go on the lam
1. 1.1with object Elude or get free from (someone)
  逃避，躲避
  he drove along the dual carriageway to escape police
  他沿着复式车行道开车以逃避警察。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Police believe she was escaping the abductor when she fell into the path of a passing car.
  There, before me, was my means of escaping the police, who were surely chasing me by now.
  So far he had escaped the police, the SAS and the army so many times he had lost count.
  A serial car thief drove through a town centre at speeds of up to 70 mph to escape police.
  Take your car or two-wheeler but park it 200 meters away from the school to escape the traffic police.
  On the second occasion, she pleaded with paramedics at midnight to call the police because she wanted to be locked up and escape a man she claimed was after her.
  It then swerved between parked cars as it tried to escape a pursuing police car.
  A teenage motorist from Trowbridge who smashed into another car as he tried to escape police has been jailed for a year.
  A banned driver drove his car dangerously down St Peters Way and then demolished a lamp post as he tried to escape police.
  A boy of 15 riding a stolen moped crashed and died while trying to escape a police car, an inquest heard yesterday.
  Many of the villages are located in the Troodos Mountains, which is where Cypriots go to escape the maddening crowds along the coast.
  A driver who raced through Lancaster and caused a crash to escape police has been jailed for 15 months and banned from driving for two years.
  Unrest was triggered by the deaths of two teenagers electrocuted in a power substation where they hid to escape police.
  He had tried to escape the police by hiding in a doorway in Ship Street, but was found after back-up had been called for.
  If you were escaping the police would you ask for the charge sheet and a copy of your statement as you absconded?
  After escaping the police, he had run along the roofs of the buildings and come to the end of the block.
  Sacrificing the other members of the gang would be no problem if he and his brother escaped a police trap.
  A 19-year-old who escaped police still wearing the handcuffs used to detain him has been brought to justice.
  Synonyms
  get away from, escape from, elude, avoid, dodge, leave behind, shake off, fend off, keep at arm's length, keep out of someone's way, steer clear of, give someone a wide berth
  informal give someone the slip
  archaic bilk
2. 1.2 Succeed in avoiding or eluding something dangerous or unpleasant.
  侥幸躲过，幸免
  the driver escaped with a broken knee
  司机死里逃生，但膝盖骨骨折了。
  with object a baby boy narrowly escaped death
  一个男婴幸免于难。
  Example sentencesExamples
  A man narrowly escaped with his life after crashing into the back of a lorry at around 11.45 pm.
  A seven-year-old boy miraculously escaped with only slight bruising and cuts after a brick thrown through a bus window hit him in the face.
  His friend, Neil, escaped with cuts and bruises in the assault.
  This three-month old baby escaped with a fractured wrist, but is now an orphan as both parents were killed.
  The bus driver escaped injury but police warned the attack could have had serious consequences.
  Because they are so young, they are likely to escape prosecution, but police have agreed to hand over their names and addresses to bus bosses.
  Give your children the basics on how to avoid and escape potentially dangerous situations.
  The lorry driver escaped with minor injuries after his vehicle came to rest on its side facing back south after hitting the stationary car.
  A police officer escaped a bizarre accident with only minor injuries on Monday when a Port Authority crane overturned and smashed the boat he was in.
  The rest of those in the car escaped with minor cuts and bruises.
  As it was, the boy escaped with a couple of bruises.
  Last year, two North Yorkshire Police officers escaped speeding charges in neighbouring Cleveland because of a technicality.
  A family who narrowly escaped with their lives after their home went up in flames have been dealt a second blow after burglars broke into the damaged house and stole hundreds of pounds worth of goods.
  An elk jumped through his family's downstairs window, crashing into the kid's bed, but the toddler escaped with just a scratched cheek.
  The 17-year-old driver escaped with cuts and bruises.
  A Colchester couple and their nine-year-old son narrowly escaped with their lives after the tsunami hit their beachfront apartment in Sri Lanka.
  Shots were fired and Tony narrowly escaped with his life.
  Elsewhere, police and civilians escaped injury in a failed grenade attack on a police station on the border.
  Even West Swindon's police station hasn't escaped the epidemic with the messy scrawl appearing all over it.
  His death comes less than a fortnight after another employee of the company escaped with minor injuries after also being shot at while driving his car in the city.
  Synonyms
  avoid, evade, dodge, elude, miss, cheat, trick, sidestep, circumvent, skirt, keep out of the way of, bypass, shun, steer clear of, shirk
  informal duck
3. 1.3 (of a gas, liquid, or heat) leak from a container.
  （气体，液体，热量）漏出；逸出
  the CFCs have escaped into the atmosphere
  Example sentencesExamples
  Do not touch electrical switches: turning a light on or off can ignite escaping gas.
  Returning to the house, I realised that leaving the front door wide open was probably a mistake, as a lot of heat was escaping from the kitchen.
  If these gases escaped directly out of the engine, the noise generated would be tremendous.
  This is because the gas can slowly escape through the pores of the plastic bottle.
  Each time an exhaust valve in the engine opens, a pressure wave of hot gases escapes from the cylinder and travels down the exhaust system.
  Their home was destroyed as they slept after gas escaped from a mains pipe into the foundations of their house and ignited.
  Gas was escaping at the house next door and there was a serious danger to life, the court heard.
  Ammonia escapes into the atmosphere during manure storage and spraying.
  He was found alongside the body of his girlfriend; both had been poisoned by carbon monoxide gas escaping from the apartment's oven.
  If rings are too loose, liquid may escape from jars during processing, and seals may fail.
  The stream of superheated water escaping from the fissure was suddenly growing larger and was now headed straight for them.
  It is an enclosed box from which hazardous gases cannot escape.
  The company admitted allowing the potentially deadly chemical percholoroethylene to escape into the river.
  Gas had escaped from an underground main into the foundations of the bungalow, forming an explosive cloud.
  There is an undefined hiss like air escaping but right now that is it.
  The low-tech way to protect against ice is to float a ball to keep an air hole open, letting noxious gases escape.
  Because the heat escapes through the roof or windows, many home owners invest in insulation, probably made from polluting petrochemicals.
  If a lot of water's escaping, re-solder the joint; smaller leaks can be sealed off with plumber's tape.
  Pale, grey gas escaped in a thin cloud from a minor vent on the side of the small craft.
  If there are any leaks in the system, radon gas will escape and be detected because of the radiation it emits.
  Synonyms
  leak (out), spill (out), seep (out), ooze (out), exude, discharge, emanate, issue, flow (out), pour (out), gush (out), drip, drain, bleed
  stream, spurt, spout, squirt, spew, jet
4. 1.4with object (of words or sounds) issue involuntarily or inadvertently from (someone)
  （话语，声音）（不由自主地）从…发出；由…发出
  a sob escaped her lips
  她不由得抽泣了起来。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Once the laugh escaped me, I noticed Toni glaring at me, and I tried not to laugh again.
  Jonathon knew what he wanted to say, but his pride would not let the words escape him.
  It was only when the words had escaped him that he recognised how much they gave away.
  The only reason the word didn't escape her in a shriek was due to the fact that she didn't possess the energy to commit to such a sound.
  She smiled slightly at that but no sound escaped her.
  Plopping herself daintily down on the chair opposite Leah she poured herself a bowl of cereal, not a word escaping her once.
  Murmured words escaped her lips, but were lost in his kiss.
  ‘No,’ I screamed, the word escaping me before I realised that it had left my lips.
  I ran a hand through my hair and was about to say something, when Jess stormed past, a small, frustrated sound escaping her.
  Despite my best efforts, a snort of laughter escaped me.
  His back arched involuntarily, and a content ‘mmm’ sound escaped his lips, edged with a groan.
  My mouth opened as my brain caught up with what had happened; small noises of protest escaped me, but the words flying about my mind failed to form.
  The words escaped my lips with a tremble, magnified in an echo that swept through the room.
  A scream finally escaped me and it all stopped as my lungs tore free of the rest of my chest.
  A bitter bark of laughter escaped her, utterly devoid of humor.
  A sound escaped him, but she wasn't sure if what she heard was laughing or weeping.
  Every so often a noise would escape her, a small sound, but nevertheless painful to hear.
  She heard a sound escape him, a mix between a moan and a hiss.
  At one point the very beginning of a word escaped her lips, and she threw both hands to her mouth as if to stop anything further from leaking out.
2with object Fail to be noticed or remembered by (someone)
没被…注意；被…遗忘
the name escaped him
他把名字给忘掉了。
it may have escaped your notice, but this is not a hotel
你也许没有注意到，但这不是旅馆。
Example sentencesExamples
- I am speechless, words to describe it escape me.
- Eddie is the president of some club in Melbourne, the name of which escapes me.
- I would like to express my formal thanks to the NHS Trust and to the doctor I saw that evening, whose name regrettably now escapes me.
- For a while, words escaped me and I couldn't imagine what to say.
- With the exception of one guy, whose name escapes me right now, the DJs are a pretty poor bunch too.
- This was lead by a female teacher whose name escapes me.
- If the author has given his name, it has escaped my notice.
- There's a great story, I wish I could remember the guy's name - it escapes me at the moment.
- His name escaped her at the moment, but Catherine remembered that he was a senior.
- The airport coffee shop is playing a song by a band whose name escapes me just for the moment.
- Susannah tried to speak, to scream out for Jake as he'd instructed, but words completely escaped her.
- The music, I'm sure you're dying to know, was the piece from the old Hamlet cigar ads - the name escapes me just now.
- But the official-sounding name has not escaped the notice of those keeping a close watch on such titles.
- Words escaped me, and when they came, they were anything but brilliant.
- Now, there was in Claremorris at that time a man, whose name escapes me, that was famous for the floral displays in his garden.
- His name escapes me now (probably traumatic amnesia), but I hope his ears are burning, wherever he is.
- I thought Norwich's new defender, whose name now escapes me, was very good.
- After a month or so, they started bringing their dog… a wheezy little pug whose name escapes me (I never did like pugs).
- Someone, who's name escapes me, once said that wisdom is the ability to hold two competing ideas in one's head at any one time.
- I'm afraid words have escaped me, and perhaps it is better as so.
- We also went to this new store near Japan town, whose name escapes me.
- There is so much I want to say, so much I want to make the world aware of, but words escape me.
- And it's got that guy… the little weaselly guy whose name escapes me.
- I was just about to throttle them both but then I noticed something that had escaped me before.
- Concerning the film version, as far as I'm aware it was filmed in the sixties by a Polish director, whose name escapes me.
- Opening his mouth, he started to speak, but words escaped him.
- I hate having to come up with words to explain that I know and remember the person but that the name is momentarily escaping me.
3Computing
with object Interrupt (an operation) by means of the escape key.
〔计算机〕用退出键中断（操作）
Example sentencesExamples
- Once installed, traditional Linux / UNIX escaping, quoting or tabbing is necessary to get to directories with spaces in their names.
- When conducting a tag search in Movable Type, the application is not properly escaping the optional IncludeBlogs query string parameter.
1. 3.1 Cause (a subsequent character or characters) to be interpreted differently.
  使（后续字符）得到不同的解释
  Example sentencesExamples
  This issue is addressed by properly escaping resolved DNS names.
  We're catering to a "need" to escape Web pages that our poor, humorless writing instilled in our audience in the first place.
  Writing data to the database is more interesting because of the need to escape the data.

noun ɛˈskeɪpɪˈskeɪpəˈskeɪp

1An act of breaking free from confinement or control.
逃跑，逃脱
the gang had made their escape
那一伙人逃跑了。
mass noun he could think of no way of escape, short of rudeness
除了撒野之外，他再也想不出其他逃跑的办法。
Example sentencesExamples
- During the theft he comes upon a chambermaid whom he takes hostage, then kills, as his escape attempt goes awry.
- He had been at work in one of the villages further up the coast, and was tailed by a vigilant constable as he attempted his escape.
- The snake was half in the bag when it turned around and attempted an escape.
- The third spider was moving rapidly across the coffee table, attempting an escape.
- The plucky farmer is understood to have startled the thief who eventually broke free and made his escape to a waiting car.
- Finally, any kind of attempt at escape will mean solitary confinement for 30 days.
- Later, when my kidnappers beat me up after a failed escape attempt, I became aware that their savagery was about much more than British or American foreign policy.
- On Friday morning, the guards thwarted an escape attempt by 2 inmates.
- Various escape attempts were made, but no one was out for long.
- He was still tied up when the men made their escape but managed to free himself.
- One group of hostages which had earlier attempted an escape were all killed.
- And finally, let's stop to consider exactly which law would be broken in an escape from detention.
- The next night, the floodlights were still on, but he felt desperate enough to attempt his escape.
- We attempted to make an escape, to sneak past the guards and run free to a farming town.
- Alexei is unable to accompany her - his price for his compliance in her escape is confinement in a Soviet work camp.
- It tells the story of a 1946 escape attempt from that most infamous of prisons, Alcatraz.
- The two men who helped in the escape attempt were executed.
- It seems yet another puppy had attempted to make an escape, this time a German Shepard pup.
Synonyms
getaway, breakout, bolt for freedom, running away, flight, bolting, absconding, decamping, fleeing, flit
disappearance, vanishing act
informal, dated springing
1. 1.1 An act of avoiding something dangerous or unpleasant.
  逃避
  the baby was fine, but it was a lucky escape
  孩子没事儿，这是不幸之中的万幸。
  Example sentencesExamples
  A lorry driver and his colleague had a narrow escape when a brick hurled by youths struck just centimetres from the windscreen.
  A terrified gamekeeper had a lucky escape after he managed to sprint to safety from a charging hippopotamus.
  We opted for the bottled water and thanked our lucky stars for our narrow escape.
  Residents in a block of flats in Epsom had a narrow escape on Valentine's Day when a fire in a basement flat threatened to engulf the three-storey block.
  More recently he had a narrow escape when a motorist suddenly changed lanes and crossed right in front of him, forcing him to swerve to avoid a collision.
  A lawyer and his family who had a narrow escape in the tsunami disaster are working in two hospitals to help the injured survivors.
  The first recorded sighting of the Loch Ness Monster dates from the 6th century when one of Saint Columba's monks had a narrow escape from its jaws.
  On March 10, the Evening Press reported that four householders in the village had a narrow escape when a car skidded off the road and ploughed into two houses.
  No serious injuries were reported but the car driver had a narrow escape.
  Last year, Kevin had a narrow escape when a stunt went horribly wrong.
  A family of four from Pewsey has spoken of its narrow escape from the flooding disaster that devastated the Cornish village of Boscastle.
  Motorists had a narrow escape when a lorry carrying heavy scrap metal crashed into a bridge, shedding its load.
  In York, one family had a narrow escape when a tree fell on their car.
  An Ambleside man had a narrow escape after stumbling and sinking up to his armpits in a bog while walking on the Lake District fells, reports Paul Duncan.
  An elderly couple had a narrow escape from an arson attack that would have ‘undoubtedly’ killed them.
  A Cranmore woman had a narrow escape when a bullet smashed through the front window of her car during last weekend's shooting.
  A local man had a narrow escape from serious injury when the tractor he was driving was in collision with a lorry at Boggan Hill on Tuesday March 26.
  Two people from Bradford had a miraculous escape after the vehicle in which they were travelling crashed through a fence.
  A Kirkby Lonsdale woman had a narrow escape when lightning struck the shop she was working in as a violent thunderstorm engulfed the town.
  A dream holiday in the Caribbean turned into a narrow escape for a pair of friends from Trowbridge as they found themselves in the path of a hurricane.
  Synonyms
  avoidance of, evasion of, dodging of, eluding of, circumvention of
  informal ducking of
  rare elusion of
2. 1.2 A means of escaping from somewhere.
  逃跑方法
  as modifier he had planned his escape route
  他计划了逃跑线路。
  Example sentencesExamples
  All four women began life in poverty, from which prostitution offered the only escape.
  Plan an escape route in case you are washed into the sea.
  I had an escape route planned out of town, and since I'd be driving my scooter I wouldn't have to worry about traffic.
  The family members should plan two escape routes from each room and practise the plan until it is perfected.
  When rich nations lock poorer countries out of their markets in this way, they close the door to an escape route from poverty.
  He was beginning to be extra glad that Miles had planned an escape route.
  Another explosion rocks the ship, and suddenly the escape capsule breaks free - flying to the surface.
  I spend the next couple of hours planning my escape route.
  Damn, I had escape routes planned from countries I'd never even been to.
  I then busied myself with the task of planning an escape route… You know, just in case.
  In our plan, we had never devised an emergency escape route.
  There was no escape, no way out of this.
  The files were dated June 26, 2004, and included details about escape routes, evacuation plans and road closures.
  His escape route would no doubt be well planned, but that was of little consequence or interest to Bailey - they needed to stop the man before he made the shot.
  She knew she had me, that there was no escape and that the weekend that followed would be torment and humiliating.
3. 1.3 A garden plant or pet animal that has gone wild and (especially in plants) become naturalized.
  野化的植物（或宠物）
  it is not a native of Britain, though often occurring as an escape
  Example sentencesExamples
  This tropical China native is a rare escape from cultivation.
  It is most likely that the two trees are escapes or remnants from cultivation.
  Gleason and Cronquist list it as an escape in Vermont and New Hampshire.
  And Vaccinium macrocarpon (the cranberry) is now a casual escape on the Pacific coast.
2A form of temporary distraction from reality or routine.
暂时解脱；逃避现实；消遣；解闷
romantic novels should present an escape from the dreary realities of life
传奇小说应能让人从沉闷的现实生活中暂时解脱出来。
Example sentencesExamples
- The effects provide a temporary escape from reality by relieving fears, tension and anxiety.
- Online many people express fantasies or adopt identities precisely because they are an escape from reality.
- This was her escape from the harsh reality of the real world.
- Unfortunately, this feeling is actually an illusion, a short-lived escape from reality.
- Such critics maintain that movies are simply an escape from reality - that they offer pictures of life closer to myth than actual truth.
- Circumstances make a schizoid reaction all too easy for us - a flight from reality and the escape from responsibility.
- The truth is people choose alcohol and drugs as a means of escape because their reality is too painful to deal with.
- My eyes were closed, but I knew that was only a temporary escape.
- The very nature of popular film is to provide an escape from daily reality and monotonous routines.
- Religion can also be used as an escape from problems.
- This is the stuff of dreams, an escape from reality.
- I started this blog as a creative outlet, a much needed release, an escape from reality.
- They say Carnival is an escape from reality and gives people the chance to participate in a little fantasy for two days.
Synonyms
distraction, diversion, interruption
3A leakage of gas, liquid, or heat from a container.
（气体，液体，热量）漏出；逸出
a lid prevents the escape of poisonous gases
with modifier a gas escape
Example sentencesExamples
- The cause of the escape of gas was tracked down to a crack in an ageing pipe.
- Foil and plastic facings on these foam panels help to slow the escape of gas from the cell structure.
- The company was yesterday visiting every house in the three villages to ensure the supply was turned off to prevent escapes when the gas goes back on.
- This expansion creates a metal-to-metal seal and prevents the escape of gases.
Synonyms
leak, leakage, spill, seepage, drip, dribble, discharge, emanation, issue, flow, outflow, outpouring, gush
stream, spurt, spout, squirt, jet
technical efflux
4Computing
A key on a computer keyboard which either interrupts the current operation or causes subsequent characters to be interpreted differently.
〔计算机〕退出键
Example sentencesExamples
- Note to self: don't hit escape key while in the Blogger window, else it removes all the text that you've painstakingly put down.
- It is possible to save the game at any stage in the play via the escape key.
- You can also hit escape at that point to cancel.
- Fortunately you can skip them by hitting the escape key.
- His first thought, when something went wrong, was to immediately hit the escape key - even when he was nowhere near a computer.

Phrases

escape the clutches (or grip) of

Break free from the control or grasp of.
逃跑，逃脱
thank heavens she'd escaped his clutches in time
Example sentencesExamples
- It is thought one of the would-be bombers escaped the clutches of police and passers-by after a chase outside a tube station in south London.
- He spoke of his relief at escaping the clutches of Hurricane Ivan.
- A man held hostage in a bedsit for more than 10 days was free last night after escaping the clutches of a gunman.
- The days of desperately trying to escape the clutches of some crashing bore in the corner of a nightclub are long gone.
- Every child in Britain is to be given a crash course in how to escape the clutches of chat room paedophiles, under plans revealed yesterday.
- A quick-witted charity worker escaped the clutches of telephone tricksters following a warning from his residents' association.
- Two sisters who escaped the clutches of the Nazis in wartime Czechoslovakia and then Hungary were living 85 miles apart in northern Israel, each not knowing that the other had survived.
- An 11-year-old girl escaped the clutches of a would-be kidnapper when a police car passed by chance.

make good one's escape

Succeed in breaking free from confinement.
逃跑，逃脱
by the time they had given chase, she had made good her escape
等到他们开始追赶时，她早已逃得没有踪影了。
Example sentencesExamples
- It is believed that they made good their escape over neighbouring fields.
- His pursuers tracked him down with a bloodhound but the fugitive managed to kill the hound with an arrow and make good his escape.
- Spinning around, the hunter catches a glimpse of a heavy-bodied stag making good his escape over the ridge.
- As a security officer prepared to take him back to the cells at the end of the hearing the defendant leapt over the back of the dock and made good his escape.
- It is believed the men used another car to make good their escape and police are particularly keen to trace a maroon Vauxhall Astra seen earlier in the day in the pub car park.
- He then set fire to the flat in an attempt to cover up what he had done, before making good his escape.
- A woman driving a blue car and two school boys also assisted in the chase but unfortunately the offender made good his escape.
- The householder went to her bedroom and found that the intruder had made his exit through the window, moving items from her dressing table to make good his escape.
- An alarm sounded but the gang knew they had 15 minutes to make good their escape into the country roads by the village of Thornhill.
- Nine prisoners overpowered security guards at the Supreme Court building, and commandeered vehicles to make good their escape.

Derivatives

escapable

adjective

The book sensitively depicts internal conflict that silences abuse victims, and shows readers the situation is escapable once the truth is revealed.
Example sentencesExamples
- This is an incalculably difficult task; after all, if a ghetto were easily escapable, who would choose to live there?
- For the rest of us, it's been an unbearable nightmare escapable only through alcohol and movies.
- Her goal was to make car trunks escapable.
- Heroes must be put into an easily escapable death situation.

escaper

noun

It comes as something of a surprise to learn that many of the most dedicated Allied escapers respected their resourceful Luftwaffe antagonists.
Example sentencesExamples
- The media place great emphasis on every prison escaper.
- Survival on a southern chain gang is the main theme of this book in which a prolific escaper pits himself against authority in a constant test of wills.
- Like every prisoner in that 18th-century castle in Saxony, Crawford was a one-man awkward squad, a habitual escaper and troublemaker.
- One of the country's most notorious prison escapers broke out of a top-security wing at the prison - and no-one noticed.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French eschaper, based on medieval Latin ex- 'out' + cappa 'cloak'. Compare with escapade.

This is from Old French eschaper, based on medieval Latin ex- ‘out’ and cappa ‘cloak’, with the idea of leaving your pursuer just clutching your cloak. Escapade (mid 17th century) comes from the same source and originally had the same meaning. See also scapegoat

Rhymes

agape, ape, cape, chape, crape, crêpe, drape, gape, grape, jape, misshape, nape, rape, scrape, shape, tape

Definition of escape in US English:

escape

verbəˈskeɪpəˈskāp

1no object Break free from confinement or control.
逃跑，逃脱
two burglars have just escaped from prison
两名盗窃犯刚才越狱逃跑了。
Example sentencesExamples
- Hundreds of prisoners have been given the opportunity to escape into a world of learning thanks to a Horwich-based training specialist.
- He said pollen would not escape into the local environment because sugar beet did not flower until after it had been harvested.
- The temptation is enormous to escape into fantasy, or close our eyes and pretend nothing has changed.
- She told police the attacker tied her up but that she managed to struggle free and escape into the bush.
- Maybe the news makes everyday life too depressing, and we want to escape into the fantasies of childhood play-acting.
- However, on a drab and grey day like this, the imagination is a better place than many others to escape into.
- And of course if you're not particularly happy when you're a child, being able to escape into a book is a wonderful thing.
- He was hurt in the scuffle but managed to escape into an area of woodland.
- He eventually left by a fire door, triggering an automatic alarm, but had escaped by the time police arrived.
- If ever I needed to escape into fantasy fiction that time is now.
- If it hadn't been for the collar, she could easily have broken free and escaped.
- What will happen when one of these fish escapes into the wild?
- In 1772 Britain declared that any escaped slave who came to Britain would automatically become free.
- She sought solitude and tried to escape into daydreaming.
- Once again, Roger Black, a convicted killer who escaped from an Iowa prison, is on the loose.
- After ten minutes, the boy managed to break free and escape, although the man initially gave chase.
- Because of its invasive nature, it often becomes a pest within an ornamental garden and readily escapes.
- Two men arrested on suspicion of violent disorder are currently in custody along with a woman arrested on suspicion of harbouring escaped prisoners.
- Living in the Yorkshire Dales, it is still just possible to escape into a world of peace and tranquillity.
- I followed silently behind the two guards, debating within my mind whether to break free and escape, or stay near to him.
- The man, a convict who has escaped from a prison ship, scares Pip into stealing him some food and a file to grind away his leg shackle.
- One day when Chris was at work and the kids were at school, two convicts who had escaped from jail broke into the Rodgers home in an attempt to hide from the police.
Synonyms
get away, get out, run away, run off, break out, break free, get free, break loose, make a break for it, bolt, clear out, flee, fly, take flight, make off, take off, decamp, abscond, take to one's heels, make a escape, make one's escape, make good one's escape, make a getaway, make one's getaway, beat a retreat, beat a hasty retreat, show a clean pair of heels, run for it, make a run for it
1. 1.1with object Elude or get free from (someone)
  逃避，躲避
  he drove along I-84 to escape the police
  Example sentencesExamples
  Police believe she was escaping the abductor when she fell into the path of a passing car.
  Many of the villages are located in the Troodos Mountains, which is where Cypriots go to escape the maddening crowds along the coast.
  Take your car or two-wheeler but park it 200 meters away from the school to escape the traffic police.
  A serial car thief drove through a town centre at speeds of up to 70 mph to escape police.
  A driver who raced through Lancaster and caused a crash to escape police has been jailed for 15 months and banned from driving for two years.
  A 19-year-old who escaped police still wearing the handcuffs used to detain him has been brought to justice.
  Sacrificing the other members of the gang would be no problem if he and his brother escaped a police trap.
  After escaping the police, he had run along the roofs of the buildings and come to the end of the block.
  Unrest was triggered by the deaths of two teenagers electrocuted in a power substation where they hid to escape police.
  There, before me, was my means of escaping the police, who were surely chasing me by now.
  A boy of 15 riding a stolen moped crashed and died while trying to escape a police car, an inquest heard yesterday.
  A teenage motorist from Trowbridge who smashed into another car as he tried to escape police has been jailed for a year.
  A banned driver drove his car dangerously down St Peters Way and then demolished a lamp post as he tried to escape police.
  He had tried to escape the police by hiding in a doorway in Ship Street, but was found after back-up had been called for.
  It then swerved between parked cars as it tried to escape a pursuing police car.
  On the second occasion, she pleaded with paramedics at midnight to call the police because she wanted to be locked up and escape a man she claimed was after her.
  If you were escaping the police would you ask for the charge sheet and a copy of your statement as you absconded?
  So far he had escaped the police, the SAS and the army so many times he had lost count.
  Synonyms
  get away from, escape from, elude, avoid, dodge, leave behind, shake off, fend off, keep at arm's length, keep out of someone's way, steer clear of, give someone a wide berth
2. 1.2 Succeed in avoiding or eluding something dangerous, unpleasant, or undesirable.
  侥幸躲过，幸免
  the driver escaped with a broken knee
  司机死里逃生，但膝盖骨骨折了。
  with object a baby boy narrowly escaped death
  一个男婴幸免于难。
  Example sentencesExamples
  A police officer escaped a bizarre accident with only minor injuries on Monday when a Port Authority crane overturned and smashed the boat he was in.
  A Colchester couple and their nine-year-old son narrowly escaped with their lives after the tsunami hit their beachfront apartment in Sri Lanka.
  This three-month old baby escaped with a fractured wrist, but is now an orphan as both parents were killed.
  Give your children the basics on how to avoid and escape potentially dangerous situations.
  The lorry driver escaped with minor injuries after his vehicle came to rest on its side facing back south after hitting the stationary car.
  Shots were fired and Tony narrowly escaped with his life.
  His death comes less than a fortnight after another employee of the company escaped with minor injuries after also being shot at while driving his car in the city.
  A man narrowly escaped with his life after crashing into the back of a lorry at around 11.45 pm.
  A family who narrowly escaped with their lives after their home went up in flames have been dealt a second blow after burglars broke into the damaged house and stole hundreds of pounds worth of goods.
  The bus driver escaped injury but police warned the attack could have had serious consequences.
  The rest of those in the car escaped with minor cuts and bruises.
  Last year, two North Yorkshire Police officers escaped speeding charges in neighbouring Cleveland because of a technicality.
  His friend, Neil, escaped with cuts and bruises in the assault.
  As it was, the boy escaped with a couple of bruises.
  A seven-year-old boy miraculously escaped with only slight bruising and cuts after a brick thrown through a bus window hit him in the face.
  The 17-year-old driver escaped with cuts and bruises.
  Elsewhere, police and civilians escaped injury in a failed grenade attack on a police station on the border.
  An elk jumped through his family's downstairs window, crashing into the kid's bed, but the toddler escaped with just a scratched cheek.
  Because they are so young, they are likely to escape prosecution, but police have agreed to hand over their names and addresses to bus bosses.
  Even West Swindon's police station hasn't escaped the epidemic with the messy scrawl appearing all over it.
  Synonyms
  avoid, evade, dodge, elude, miss, cheat, trick, sidestep, circumvent, skirt, keep out of the way of, bypass, shun, steer clear of, shirk
3. 1.3 (of a gas, liquid, or heat) leak from a container.
  （气体，液体，热量）漏出；逸出
  Example sentencesExamples
  He was found alongside the body of his girlfriend; both had been poisoned by carbon monoxide gas escaping from the apartment's oven.
  Gas was escaping at the house next door and there was a serious danger to life, the court heard.
  Their home was destroyed as they slept after gas escaped from a mains pipe into the foundations of their house and ignited.
  The low-tech way to protect against ice is to float a ball to keep an air hole open, letting noxious gases escape.
  If these gases escaped directly out of the engine, the noise generated would be tremendous.
  It is an enclosed box from which hazardous gases cannot escape.
  Because the heat escapes through the roof or windows, many home owners invest in insulation, probably made from polluting petrochemicals.
  Each time an exhaust valve in the engine opens, a pressure wave of hot gases escapes from the cylinder and travels down the exhaust system.
  This is because the gas can slowly escape through the pores of the plastic bottle.
  The company admitted allowing the potentially deadly chemical percholoroethylene to escape into the river.
  Gas had escaped from an underground main into the foundations of the bungalow, forming an explosive cloud.
  Returning to the house, I realised that leaving the front door wide open was probably a mistake, as a lot of heat was escaping from the kitchen.
  If there are any leaks in the system, radon gas will escape and be detected because of the radiation it emits.
  The stream of superheated water escaping from the fissure was suddenly growing larger and was now headed straight for them.
  Do not touch electrical switches: turning a light on or off can ignite escaping gas.
  Pale, grey gas escaped in a thin cloud from a minor vent on the side of the small craft.
  If rings are too loose, liquid may escape from jars during processing, and seals may fail.
  Ammonia escapes into the atmosphere during manure storage and spraying.
  If a lot of water's escaping, re-solder the joint; smaller leaks can be sealed off with plumber's tape.
  There is an undefined hiss like air escaping but right now that is it.
  Synonyms
  leak, leak out, spill, spill out, seep, seep out, ooze, ooze out, exude, discharge, emanate, issue, flow, flow out, pour, pour out, gush, gush out, drip, drain, bleed
4. 1.4with object (of words or sounds) issue involuntarily or inadvertently from (someone or their lips)
  （话语，声音）（不由自主地）从…发出；由…发出
  a sob escaped her lips
  她不由得抽泣了起来。
  Example sentencesExamples
  His back arched involuntarily, and a content ‘mmm’ sound escaped his lips, edged with a groan.
  Plopping herself daintily down on the chair opposite Leah she poured herself a bowl of cereal, not a word escaping her once.
  It was only when the words had escaped him that he recognised how much they gave away.
  The words escaped my lips with a tremble, magnified in an echo that swept through the room.
  Once the laugh escaped me, I noticed Toni glaring at me, and I tried not to laugh again.
  At one point the very beginning of a word escaped her lips, and she threw both hands to her mouth as if to stop anything further from leaking out.
  She smiled slightly at that but no sound escaped her.
  Murmured words escaped her lips, but were lost in his kiss.
  A scream finally escaped me and it all stopped as my lungs tore free of the rest of my chest.
  I ran a hand through my hair and was about to say something, when Jess stormed past, a small, frustrated sound escaping her.
  A sound escaped him, but she wasn't sure if what she heard was laughing or weeping.
  The only reason the word didn't escape her in a shriek was due to the fact that she didn't possess the energy to commit to such a sound.
  Despite my best efforts, a snort of laughter escaped me.
  She heard a sound escape him, a mix between a moan and a hiss.
  Every so often a noise would escape her, a small sound, but nevertheless painful to hear.
  A bitter bark of laughter escaped her, utterly devoid of humor.
  Jonathon knew what he wanted to say, but his pride would not let the words escape him.
  ‘No,’ I screamed, the word escaping me before I realised that it had left my lips.
  My mouth opened as my brain caught up with what had happened; small noises of protest escaped me, but the words flying about my mind failed to form.
2with object Fail to be noticed or remembered by (someone)
没被…注意；被…遗忘
the name escaped him
他把名字给忘掉了。
it may have escaped your notice, but this is not a hotel
你也许没有注意到，但这不是旅馆。
Example sentencesExamples
- Susannah tried to speak, to scream out for Jake as he'd instructed, but words completely escaped her.
- But the official-sounding name has not escaped the notice of those keeping a close watch on such titles.
- His name escapes me now (probably traumatic amnesia), but I hope his ears are burning, wherever he is.
- There is so much I want to say, so much I want to make the world aware of, but words escape me.
- With the exception of one guy, whose name escapes me right now, the DJs are a pretty poor bunch too.
- Someone, who's name escapes me, once said that wisdom is the ability to hold two competing ideas in one's head at any one time.
- Concerning the film version, as far as I'm aware it was filmed in the sixties by a Polish director, whose name escapes me.
- This was lead by a female teacher whose name escapes me.
- There's a great story, I wish I could remember the guy's name - it escapes me at the moment.
- Eddie is the president of some club in Melbourne, the name of which escapes me.
- His name escaped her at the moment, but Catherine remembered that he was a senior.
- And it's got that guy… the little weaselly guy whose name escapes me.
- The music, I'm sure you're dying to know, was the piece from the old Hamlet cigar ads - the name escapes me just now.
- Now, there was in Claremorris at that time a man, whose name escapes me, that was famous for the floral displays in his garden.
- The airport coffee shop is playing a song by a band whose name escapes me just for the moment.
- After a month or so, they started bringing their dog… a wheezy little pug whose name escapes me (I never did like pugs).
- I would like to express my formal thanks to the NHS Trust and to the doctor I saw that evening, whose name regrettably now escapes me.
- I hate having to come up with words to explain that I know and remember the person but that the name is momentarily escaping me.
- For a while, words escaped me and I couldn't imagine what to say.
- I'm afraid words have escaped me, and perhaps it is better as so.
- Opening his mouth, he started to speak, but words escaped him.
- If the author has given his name, it has escaped my notice.
- Words escaped me, and when they came, they were anything but brilliant.
- I am speechless, words to describe it escape me.
- I was just about to throttle them both but then I noticed something that had escaped me before.
- I thought Norwich's new defender, whose name now escapes me, was very good.
- We also went to this new store near Japan town, whose name escapes me.
3Computing
with object Interrupt (an operation) by means of the escape key.
〔计算机〕用退出键中断（操作）
Example sentencesExamples
- Once installed, traditional Linux / UNIX escaping, quoting or tabbing is necessary to get to directories with spaces in their names.
- When conducting a tag search in Movable Type, the application is not properly escaping the optional IncludeBlogs query string parameter.
1. 3.1 Cause (a subsequent character or characters) to be interpreted differently.
  使（后续字符）得到不同的解释

nounəˈskeɪpəˈskāp

1An act of breaking free from confinement or control.
逃跑，逃脱
the story of his escape from a POW camp
那个有关他从战俘营逃跑的故事。
he could think of no way of escape, short of rudeness
除了撒野之外，他再也想不出其他逃跑的办法。
Example sentencesExamples
- He was still tied up when the men made their escape but managed to free himself.
- The two men who helped in the escape attempt were executed.
- It seems yet another puppy had attempted to make an escape, this time a German Shepard pup.
- It tells the story of a 1946 escape attempt from that most infamous of prisons, Alcatraz.
- One group of hostages which had earlier attempted an escape were all killed.
- Finally, any kind of attempt at escape will mean solitary confinement for 30 days.
- Various escape attempts were made, but no one was out for long.
- The snake was half in the bag when it turned around and attempted an escape.
- And finally, let's stop to consider exactly which law would be broken in an escape from detention.
- The third spider was moving rapidly across the coffee table, attempting an escape.
- Later, when my kidnappers beat me up after a failed escape attempt, I became aware that their savagery was about much more than British or American foreign policy.
- He had been at work in one of the villages further up the coast, and was tailed by a vigilant constable as he attempted his escape.
- The next night, the floodlights were still on, but he felt desperate enough to attempt his escape.
- The plucky farmer is understood to have startled the thief who eventually broke free and made his escape to a waiting car.
- On Friday morning, the guards thwarted an escape attempt by 2 inmates.
- We attempted to make an escape, to sneak past the guards and run free to a farming town.
- Alexei is unable to accompany her - his price for his compliance in her escape is confinement in a Soviet work camp.
- During the theft he comes upon a chambermaid whom he takes hostage, then kills, as his escape attempt goes awry.
Synonyms
getaway, breakout, bolt for freedom, running away, flight, bolting, absconding, decamping, fleeing, flit
1. 1.1 An act of successfully avoiding something dangerous, unpleasant, or unwelcome.
  侥幸躲过，幸免
  the baby was fine, but it was a lucky escape
  孩子没事儿，这是不幸之中的万幸。
  Example sentencesExamples
  On March 10, the Evening Press reported that four householders in the village had a narrow escape when a car skidded off the road and ploughed into two houses.
  A lorry driver and his colleague had a narrow escape when a brick hurled by youths struck just centimetres from the windscreen.
  We opted for the bottled water and thanked our lucky stars for our narrow escape.
  In York, one family had a narrow escape when a tree fell on their car.
  More recently he had a narrow escape when a motorist suddenly changed lanes and crossed right in front of him, forcing him to swerve to avoid a collision.
  Residents in a block of flats in Epsom had a narrow escape on Valentine's Day when a fire in a basement flat threatened to engulf the three-storey block.
  A lawyer and his family who had a narrow escape in the tsunami disaster are working in two hospitals to help the injured survivors.
  A local man had a narrow escape from serious injury when the tractor he was driving was in collision with a lorry at Boggan Hill on Tuesday March 26.
  A family of four from Pewsey has spoken of its narrow escape from the flooding disaster that devastated the Cornish village of Boscastle.
  Two people from Bradford had a miraculous escape after the vehicle in which they were travelling crashed through a fence.
  An Ambleside man had a narrow escape after stumbling and sinking up to his armpits in a bog while walking on the Lake District fells, reports Paul Duncan.
  Motorists had a narrow escape when a lorry carrying heavy scrap metal crashed into a bridge, shedding its load.
  A Cranmore woman had a narrow escape when a bullet smashed through the front window of her car during last weekend's shooting.
  The first recorded sighting of the Loch Ness Monster dates from the 6th century when one of Saint Columba's monks had a narrow escape from its jaws.
  No serious injuries were reported but the car driver had a narrow escape.
  An elderly couple had a narrow escape from an arson attack that would have ‘undoubtedly’ killed them.
  A terrified gamekeeper had a lucky escape after he managed to sprint to safety from a charging hippopotamus.
  A dream holiday in the Caribbean turned into a narrow escape for a pair of friends from Trowbridge as they found themselves in the path of a hurricane.
  A Kirkby Lonsdale woman had a narrow escape when lightning struck the shop she was working in as a violent thunderstorm engulfed the town.
  Last year, Kevin had a narrow escape when a stunt went horribly wrong.
  Synonyms
  avoidance of, evasion of, dodging of, eluding of, circumvention of
2. 1.2 A means of escaping from somewhere.
  逃跑方法
  as modifier he had planned his escape route
  他计划了逃跑线路。
  Example sentencesExamples
  She knew she had me, that there was no escape and that the weekend that followed would be torment and humiliating.
  There was no escape, no way out of this.
  I then busied myself with the task of planning an escape route… You know, just in case.
  All four women began life in poverty, from which prostitution offered the only escape.
  Damn, I had escape routes planned from countries I'd never even been to.
  His escape route would no doubt be well planned, but that was of little consequence or interest to Bailey - they needed to stop the man before he made the shot.
  I had an escape route planned out of town, and since I'd be driving my scooter I wouldn't have to worry about traffic.
  When rich nations lock poorer countries out of their markets in this way, they close the door to an escape route from poverty.
  He was beginning to be extra glad that Miles had planned an escape route.
  The family members should plan two escape routes from each room and practise the plan until it is perfected.
  Plan an escape route in case you are washed into the sea.
  The files were dated June 26, 2004, and included details about escape routes, evacuation plans and road closures.
  I spend the next couple of hours planning my escape route.
  In our plan, we had never devised an emergency escape route.
  Another explosion rocks the ship, and suddenly the escape capsule breaks free - flying to the surface.
3. 1.3 A form of temporary distraction from reality or routine.
  暂时解脱；逃避现实；消遣；解闷
  romantic novels should present an escape from the dreary realities of life
  传奇小说应能让人从沉闷的现实生活中暂时解脱出来。
  Example sentencesExamples
  They say Carnival is an escape from reality and gives people the chance to participate in a little fantasy for two days.
  Religion can also be used as an escape from problems.
  I started this blog as a creative outlet, a much needed release, an escape from reality.
  Online many people express fantasies or adopt identities precisely because they are an escape from reality.
  Unfortunately, this feeling is actually an illusion, a short-lived escape from reality.
  Such critics maintain that movies are simply an escape from reality - that they offer pictures of life closer to myth than actual truth.
  Circumstances make a schizoid reaction all too easy for us - a flight from reality and the escape from responsibility.
  The truth is people choose alcohol and drugs as a means of escape because their reality is too painful to deal with.
  The effects provide a temporary escape from reality by relieving fears, tension and anxiety.
  My eyes were closed, but I knew that was only a temporary escape.
  The very nature of popular film is to provide an escape from daily reality and monotonous routines.
  This was her escape from the harsh reality of the real world.
  This is the stuff of dreams, an escape from reality.
  Synonyms
  distraction, diversion, interruption
4. 1.4 A leakage of gas, liquid, or heat from a container.
  （气体，液体，热量）漏出；逸出
  Example sentencesExamples
  Foil and plastic facings on these foam panels help to slow the escape of gas from the cell structure.
  This expansion creates a metal-to-metal seal and prevents the escape of gases.
  The cause of the escape of gas was tracked down to a crack in an ageing pipe.
  The company was yesterday visiting every house in the three villages to ensure the supply was turned off to prevent escapes when the gas goes back on.
  Synonyms
  leak, leakage, spill, seepage, drip, dribble, discharge, emanation, issue, flow, outflow, outpouring, gush
5. 1.5 A garden plant or pet animal that has gone wild and (especially in plants) become naturalized.
  野化的植物（或宠物）
  Example sentencesExamples
  And Vaccinium macrocarpon (the cranberry) is now a casual escape on the Pacific coast.
  Gleason and Cronquist list it as an escape in Vermont and New Hampshire.
  This tropical China native is a rare escape from cultivation.
  It is most likely that the two trees are escapes or remnants from cultivation.
6. 1.6Computing A key on a computer keyboard that either interrupts the current operation or causes subsequent characters to be interpreted differently.
  〔计算机〕退出键
  Example sentencesExamples
  It is possible to save the game at any stage in the play via the escape key.
  His first thought, when something went wrong, was to immediately hit the escape key - even when he was nowhere near a computer.
  You can also hit escape at that point to cancel.
  Fortunately you can skip them by hitting the escape key.
  Note to self: don't hit escape key while in the Blogger window, else it removes all the text that you've painstakingly put down.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French eschaper, based on medieval Latin ex- ‘out’ + cappa ‘cloak’. Compare with escapade.

词汇	escape
释义	Definition of escape in English: escape verb ɛˈskeɪpɪˈskeɪpəˈskeɪp 1no object Break free from confinement or control. 逃跑，逃脱 two burglars have just escaped from prison 两名盗窃犯刚才越狱逃跑了。 Example sentencesExamples In 1772 Britain declared that any escaped slave who came to Britain would automatically become free. If ever I needed to escape into fantasy fiction that time is now. If it hadn't been for the collar, she could easily have broken free and escaped. And of course if you're not particularly happy when you're a child, being able to escape into a book is a wonderful thing. Because of its invasive nature, it often becomes a pest within an ornamental garden and readily escapes. Maybe the news makes everyday life too depressing, and we want to escape into the fantasies of childhood play-acting. She told police the attacker tied her up but that she managed to struggle free and escape into the bush. He said pollen would not escape into the local environment because sugar beet did not flower until after it had been harvested. Hundreds of prisoners have been given the opportunity to escape into a world of learning thanks to a Horwich-based training specialist. After ten minutes, the boy managed to break free and escape, although the man initially gave chase. Once again, Roger Black, a convicted killer who escaped from an Iowa prison, is on the loose. Living in the Yorkshire Dales, it is still just possible to escape into a world of peace and tranquillity. What will happen when one of these fish escapes into the wild? She sought solitude and tried to escape into daydreaming. I followed silently behind the two guards, debating within my mind whether to break free and escape, or stay near to him. However, on a drab and grey day like this, the imagination is a better place than many others to escape into. He eventually left by a fire door, triggering an automatic alarm, but had escaped by the time police arrived. Two men arrested on suspicion of violent disorder are currently in custody along with a woman arrested on suspicion of harbouring escaped prisoners. One day when Chris was at work and the kids were at school, two convicts who had escaped from jail broke into the Rodgers home in an attempt to hide from the police. The temptation is enormous to escape into fantasy, or close our eyes and pretend nothing has changed. The man, a convict who has escaped from a prison ship, scares Pip into stealing him some food and a file to grind away his leg shackle. He was hurt in the scuffle but managed to escape into an area of woodland. Synonyms get away, get out, run away, run off, break out, break free, get free, break loose, make a break for it, bolt, clear out, flee, fly, take flight, make off, take off, decamp, abscond, take to one's heels, make a/one's escape, make good one's escape, make a/one's getaway, beat a (hasty) retreat, show a clean pair of heels, run for it, make a run for it disappear, vanish, slip away, steal away, sneak away get out of someone's clutches informal bust, do a bunk, do a moonlight flit, cut and run, skedaddle, skip, head for the hills, do a disappearing/vanishing act, fly the coop, take French leave, scarper, vamoose, hightail it, leg it British informal do a runner, hook it North American informal take a powder, go on the lam 1.1with object Elude or get free from (someone) 逃避，躲避 he drove along the dual carriageway to escape police 他沿着复式车行道开车以逃避警察。 Example sentencesExamples Police believe she was escaping the abductor when she fell into the path of a passing car. There, before me, was my means of escaping the police, who were surely chasing me by now. So far he had escaped the police, the SAS and the army so many times he had lost count. A serial car thief drove through a town centre at speeds of up to 70 mph to escape police. Take your car or two-wheeler but park it 200 meters away from the school to escape the traffic police. On the second occasion, she pleaded with paramedics at midnight to call the police because she wanted to be locked up and escape a man she claimed was after her. It then swerved between parked cars as it tried to escape a pursuing police car. A teenage motorist from Trowbridge who smashed into another car as he tried to escape police has been jailed for a year. A banned driver drove his car dangerously down St Peters Way and then demolished a lamp post as he tried to escape police. A boy of 15 riding a stolen moped crashed and died while trying to escape a police car, an inquest heard yesterday. Many of the villages are located in the Troodos Mountains, which is where Cypriots go to escape the maddening crowds along the coast. A driver who raced through Lancaster and caused a crash to escape police has been jailed for 15 months and banned from driving for two years. Unrest was triggered by the deaths of two teenagers electrocuted in a power substation where they hid to escape police. He had tried to escape the police by hiding in a doorway in Ship Street, but was found after back-up had been called for. If you were escaping the police would you ask for the charge sheet and a copy of your statement as you absconded? After escaping the police, he had run along the roofs of the buildings and come to the end of the block. Sacrificing the other members of the gang would be no problem if he and his brother escaped a police trap. A 19-year-old who escaped police still wearing the handcuffs used to detain him has been brought to justice. Synonyms get away from, escape from, elude, avoid, dodge, leave behind, shake off, fend off, keep at arm's length, keep out of someone's way, steer clear of, give someone a wide berth informal give someone the slip archaic bilk 1.2 Succeed in avoiding or eluding something dangerous or unpleasant. 侥幸躲过，幸免 the driver escaped with a broken knee 司机死里逃生，但膝盖骨骨折了。 with object a baby boy narrowly escaped death 一个男婴幸免于难。 Example sentencesExamples A man narrowly escaped with his life after crashing into the back of a lorry at around 11.45 pm. A seven-year-old boy miraculously escaped with only slight bruising and cuts after a brick thrown through a bus window hit him in the face. His friend, Neil, escaped with cuts and bruises in the assault. This three-month old baby escaped with a fractured wrist, but is now an orphan as both parents were killed. The bus driver escaped injury but police warned the attack could have had serious consequences. Because they are so young, they are likely to escape prosecution, but police have agreed to hand over their names and addresses to bus bosses. Give your children the basics on how to avoid and escape potentially dangerous situations. The lorry driver escaped with minor injuries after his vehicle came to rest on its side facing back south after hitting the stationary car. A police officer escaped a bizarre accident with only minor injuries on Monday when a Port Authority crane overturned and smashed the boat he was in. The rest of those in the car escaped with minor cuts and bruises. As it was, the boy escaped with a couple of bruises. Last year, two North Yorkshire Police officers escaped speeding charges in neighbouring Cleveland because of a technicality. A family who narrowly escaped with their lives after their home went up in flames have been dealt a second blow after burglars broke into the damaged house and stole hundreds of pounds worth of goods. An elk jumped through his family's downstairs window, crashing into the kid's bed, but the toddler escaped with just a scratched cheek. The 17-year-old driver escaped with cuts and bruises. A Colchester couple and their nine-year-old son narrowly escaped with their lives after the tsunami hit their beachfront apartment in Sri Lanka. Shots were fired and Tony narrowly escaped with his life. Elsewhere, police and civilians escaped injury in a failed grenade attack on a police station on the border. Even West Swindon's police station hasn't escaped the epidemic with the messy scrawl appearing all over it. His death comes less than a fortnight after another employee of the company escaped with minor injuries after also being shot at while driving his car in the city. Synonyms avoid, evade, dodge, elude, miss, cheat, trick, sidestep, circumvent, skirt, keep out of the way of, bypass, shun, steer clear of, shirk informal duck 1.3 (of a gas, liquid, or heat) leak from a container. （气体，液体，热量）漏出；逸出 the CFCs have escaped into the atmosphere Example sentencesExamples Do not touch electrical switches: turning a light on or off can ignite escaping gas. Returning to the house, I realised that leaving the front door wide open was probably a mistake, as a lot of heat was escaping from the kitchen. If these gases escaped directly out of the engine, the noise generated would be tremendous. This is because the gas can slowly escape through the pores of the plastic bottle. Each time an exhaust valve in the engine opens, a pressure wave of hot gases escapes from the cylinder and travels down the exhaust system. Their home was destroyed as they slept after gas escaped from a mains pipe into the foundations of their house and ignited. Gas was escaping at the house next door and there was a serious danger to life, the court heard. Ammonia escapes into the atmosphere during manure storage and spraying. He was found alongside the body of his girlfriend; both had been poisoned by carbon monoxide gas escaping from the apartment's oven. If rings are too loose, liquid may escape from jars during processing, and seals may fail. The stream of superheated water escaping from the fissure was suddenly growing larger and was now headed straight for them. It is an enclosed box from which hazardous gases cannot escape. The company admitted allowing the potentially deadly chemical percholoroethylene to escape into the river. Gas had escaped from an underground main into the foundations of the bungalow, forming an explosive cloud. There is an undefined hiss like air escaping but right now that is it. The low-tech way to protect against ice is to float a ball to keep an air hole open, letting noxious gases escape. Because the heat escapes through the roof or windows, many home owners invest in insulation, probably made from polluting petrochemicals. If a lot of water's escaping, re-solder the joint; smaller leaks can be sealed off with plumber's tape. Pale, grey gas escaped in a thin cloud from a minor vent on the side of the small craft. If there are any leaks in the system, radon gas will escape and be detected because of the radiation it emits. Synonyms leak (out), spill (out), seep (out), ooze (out), exude, discharge, emanate, issue, flow (out), pour (out), gush (out), drip, drain, bleed stream, spurt, spout, squirt, spew, jet 1.4with object (of words or sounds) issue involuntarily or inadvertently from (someone) （话语，声音）（不由自主地）从…发出；由…发出 a sob escaped her lips 她不由得抽泣了起来。 Example sentencesExamples Once the laugh escaped me, I noticed Toni glaring at me, and I tried not to laugh again. Jonathon knew what he wanted to say, but his pride would not let the words escape him. It was only when the words had escaped him that he recognised how much they gave away. The only reason the word didn't escape her in a shriek was due to the fact that she didn't possess the energy to commit to such a sound. She smiled slightly at that but no sound escaped her. Plopping herself daintily down on the chair opposite Leah she poured herself a bowl of cereal, not a word escaping her once. Murmured words escaped her lips, but were lost in his kiss. ‘No,’ I screamed, the word escaping me before I realised that it had left my lips. I ran a hand through my hair and was about to say something, when Jess stormed past, a small, frustrated sound escaping her. Despite my best efforts, a snort of laughter escaped me. His back arched involuntarily, and a content ‘mmm’ sound escaped his lips, edged with a groan. My mouth opened as my brain caught up with what had happened; small noises of protest escaped me, but the words flying about my mind failed to form. The words escaped my lips with a tremble, magnified in an echo that swept through the room. A scream finally escaped me and it all stopped as my lungs tore free of the rest of my chest. A bitter bark of laughter escaped her, utterly devoid of humor. A sound escaped him, but she wasn't sure if what she heard was laughing or weeping. Every so often a noise would escape her, a small sound, but nevertheless painful to hear. She heard a sound escape him, a mix between a moan and a hiss. At one point the very beginning of a word escaped her lips, and she threw both hands to her mouth as if to stop anything further from leaking out. 2with object Fail to be noticed or remembered by (someone) 没被…注意；被…遗忘 the name escaped him 他把名字给忘掉了。 it may have escaped your notice, but this is not a hotel 你也许没有注意到，但这不是旅馆。 Example sentencesExamples I am speechless, words to describe it escape me. Eddie is the president of some club in Melbourne, the name of which escapes me. I would like to express my formal thanks to the NHS Trust and to the doctor I saw that evening, whose name regrettably now escapes me. For a while, words escaped me and I couldn't imagine what to say. With the exception of one guy, whose name escapes me right now, the DJs are a pretty poor bunch too. This was lead by a female teacher whose name escapes me. If the author has given his name, it has escaped my notice. There's a great story, I wish I could remember the guy's name - it escapes me at the moment. His name escaped her at the moment, but Catherine remembered that he was a senior. The airport coffee shop is playing a song by a band whose name escapes me just for the moment. Susannah tried to speak, to scream out for Jake as he'd instructed, but words completely escaped her. The music, I'm sure you're dying to know, was the piece from the old Hamlet cigar ads - the name escapes me just now. But the official-sounding name has not escaped the notice of those keeping a close watch on such titles. Words escaped me, and when they came, they were anything but brilliant. Now, there was in Claremorris at that time a man, whose name escapes me, that was famous for the floral displays in his garden. His name escapes me now (probably traumatic amnesia), but I hope his ears are burning, wherever he is. I thought Norwich's new defender, whose name now escapes me, was very good. After a month or so, they started bringing their dog… a wheezy little pug whose name escapes me (I never did like pugs). Someone, who's name escapes me, once said that wisdom is the ability to hold two competing ideas in one's head at any one time. I'm afraid words have escaped me, and perhaps it is better as so. We also went to this new store near Japan town, whose name escapes me. There is so much I want to say, so much I want to make the world aware of, but words escape me. And it's got that guy… the little weaselly guy whose name escapes me. I was just about to throttle them both but then I noticed something that had escaped me before. Concerning the film version, as far as I'm aware it was filmed in the sixties by a Polish director, whose name escapes me. Opening his mouth, he started to speak, but words escaped him. I hate having to come up with words to explain that I know and remember the person but that the name is momentarily escaping me. 3Computing with object Interrupt (an operation) by means of the escape key. 〔计算机〕用退出键中断（操作） Example sentencesExamples Once installed, traditional Linux / UNIX escaping, quoting or tabbing is necessary to get to directories with spaces in their names. When conducting a tag search in Movable Type, the application is not properly escaping the optional IncludeBlogs query string parameter. 3.1 Cause (a subsequent character or characters) to be interpreted differently. 使（后续字符）得到不同的解释 Example sentencesExamples This issue is addressed by properly escaping resolved DNS names. We're catering to a "need" to escape Web pages that our poor, humorless writing instilled in our audience in the first place. Writing data to the database is more interesting because of the need to escape the data. noun ɛˈskeɪpɪˈskeɪpəˈskeɪp 1An act of breaking free from confinement or control. 逃跑，逃脱 the gang had made their escape 那一伙人逃跑了。 mass noun he could think of no way of escape, short of rudeness 除了撒野之外，他再也想不出其他逃跑的办法。 Example sentencesExamples During the theft he comes upon a chambermaid whom he takes hostage, then kills, as his escape attempt goes awry. He had been at work in one of the villages further up the coast, and was tailed by a vigilant constable as he attempted his escape. The snake was half in the bag when it turned around and attempted an escape. The third spider was moving rapidly across the coffee table, attempting an escape. The plucky farmer is understood to have startled the thief who eventually broke free and made his escape to a waiting car. Finally, any kind of attempt at escape will mean solitary confinement for 30 days. Later, when my kidnappers beat me up after a failed escape attempt, I became aware that their savagery was about much more than British or American foreign policy. On Friday morning, the guards thwarted an escape attempt by 2 inmates. Various escape attempts were made, but no one was out for long. He was still tied up when the men made their escape but managed to free himself. One group of hostages which had earlier attempted an escape were all killed. And finally, let's stop to consider exactly which law would be broken in an escape from detention. The next night, the floodlights were still on, but he felt desperate enough to attempt his escape. We attempted to make an escape, to sneak past the guards and run free to a farming town. Alexei is unable to accompany her - his price for his compliance in her escape is confinement in a Soviet work camp. It tells the story of a 1946 escape attempt from that most infamous of prisons, Alcatraz. The two men who helped in the escape attempt were executed. It seems yet another puppy had attempted to make an escape, this time a German Shepard pup. Synonyms getaway, breakout, bolt for freedom, running away, flight, bolting, absconding, decamping, fleeing, flit disappearance, vanishing act informal, dated springing 1.1 An act of avoiding something dangerous or unpleasant. 逃避 the baby was fine, but it was a lucky escape 孩子没事儿，这是不幸之中的万幸。 Example sentencesExamples A lorry driver and his colleague had a narrow escape when a brick hurled by youths struck just centimetres from the windscreen. A terrified gamekeeper had a lucky escape after he managed to sprint to safety from a charging hippopotamus. We opted for the bottled water and thanked our lucky stars for our narrow escape. Residents in a block of flats in Epsom had a narrow escape on Valentine's Day when a fire in a basement flat threatened to engulf the three-storey block. More recently he had a narrow escape when a motorist suddenly changed lanes and crossed right in front of him, forcing him to swerve to avoid a collision. A lawyer and his family who had a narrow escape in the tsunami disaster are working in two hospitals to help the injured survivors. The first recorded sighting of the Loch Ness Monster dates from the 6th century when one of Saint Columba's monks had a narrow escape from its jaws. On March 10, the Evening Press reported that four householders in the village had a narrow escape when a car skidded off the road and ploughed into two houses. No serious injuries were reported but the car driver had a narrow escape. Last year, Kevin had a narrow escape when a stunt went horribly wrong. A family of four from Pewsey has spoken of its narrow escape from the flooding disaster that devastated the Cornish village of Boscastle. Motorists had a narrow escape when a lorry carrying heavy scrap metal crashed into a bridge, shedding its load. In York, one family had a narrow escape when a tree fell on their car. An Ambleside man had a narrow escape after stumbling and sinking up to his armpits in a bog while walking on the Lake District fells, reports Paul Duncan. An elderly couple had a narrow escape from an arson attack that would have ‘undoubtedly’ killed them. A Cranmore woman had a narrow escape when a bullet smashed through the front window of her car during last weekend's shooting. A local man had a narrow escape from serious injury when the tractor he was driving was in collision with a lorry at Boggan Hill on Tuesday March 26. Two people from Bradford had a miraculous escape after the vehicle in which they were travelling crashed through a fence. A Kirkby Lonsdale woman had a narrow escape when lightning struck the shop she was working in as a violent thunderstorm engulfed the town. A dream holiday in the Caribbean turned into a narrow escape for a pair of friends from Trowbridge as they found themselves in the path of a hurricane. Synonyms avoidance of, evasion of, dodging of, eluding of, circumvention of informal ducking of rare elusion of 1.2 A means of escaping from somewhere. 逃跑方法 as modifier he had planned his escape route 他计划了逃跑线路。 Example sentencesExamples All four women began life in poverty, from which prostitution offered the only escape. Plan an escape route in case you are washed into the sea. I had an escape route planned out of town, and since I'd be driving my scooter I wouldn't have to worry about traffic. The family members should plan two escape routes from each room and practise the plan until it is perfected. When rich nations lock poorer countries out of their markets in this way, they close the door to an escape route from poverty. He was beginning to be extra glad that Miles had planned an escape route. Another explosion rocks the ship, and suddenly the escape capsule breaks free - flying to the surface. I spend the next couple of hours planning my escape route. Damn, I had escape routes planned from countries I'd never even been to. I then busied myself with the task of planning an escape route… You know, just in case. In our plan, we had never devised an emergency escape route. There was no escape, no way out of this. The files were dated June 26, 2004, and included details about escape routes, evacuation plans and road closures. His escape route would no doubt be well planned, but that was of little consequence or interest to Bailey - they needed to stop the man before he made the shot. She knew she had me, that there was no escape and that the weekend that followed would be torment and humiliating. 1.3 A garden plant or pet animal that has gone wild and (especially in plants) become naturalized. 野化的植物（或宠物） it is not a native of Britain, though often occurring as an escape Example sentencesExamples This tropical China native is a rare escape from cultivation. It is most likely that the two trees are escapes or remnants from cultivation. Gleason and Cronquist list it as an escape in Vermont and New Hampshire. And Vaccinium macrocarpon (the cranberry) is now a casual escape on the Pacific coast. 2A form of temporary distraction from reality or routine. 暂时解脱；逃避现实；消遣；解闷 romantic novels should present an escape from the dreary realities of life 传奇小说应能让人从沉闷的现实生活中暂时解脱出来。 Example sentencesExamples The effects provide a temporary escape from reality by relieving fears, tension and anxiety. Online many people express fantasies or adopt identities precisely because they are an escape from reality. This was her escape from the harsh reality of the real world. Unfortunately, this feeling is actually an illusion, a short-lived escape from reality. Such critics maintain that movies are simply an escape from reality - that they offer pictures of life closer to myth than actual truth. Circumstances make a schizoid reaction all too easy for us - a flight from reality and the escape from responsibility. The truth is people choose alcohol and drugs as a means of escape because their reality is too painful to deal with. My eyes were closed, but I knew that was only a temporary escape. The very nature of popular film is to provide an escape from daily reality and monotonous routines. Religion can also be used as an escape from problems. This is the stuff of dreams, an escape from reality. I started this blog as a creative outlet, a much needed release, an escape from reality. They say Carnival is an escape from reality and gives people the chance to participate in a little fantasy for two days. Synonyms distraction, diversion, interruption 3A leakage of gas, liquid, or heat from a container. （气体，液体，热量）漏出；逸出 a lid prevents the escape of poisonous gases with modifier a gas escape Example sentencesExamples The cause of the escape of gas was tracked down to a crack in an ageing pipe. Foil and plastic facings on these foam panels help to slow the escape of gas from the cell structure. The company was yesterday visiting every house in the three villages to ensure the supply was turned off to prevent escapes when the gas goes back on. This expansion creates a metal-to-metal seal and prevents the escape of gases. Synonyms leak, leakage, spill, seepage, drip, dribble, discharge, emanation, issue, flow, outflow, outpouring, gush stream, spurt, spout, squirt, jet technical efflux 4Computing A key on a computer keyboard which either interrupts the current operation or causes subsequent characters to be interpreted differently. 〔计算机〕退出键 Example sentencesExamples Note to self: don't hit escape key while in the Blogger window, else it removes all the text that you've painstakingly put down. It is possible to save the game at any stage in the play via the escape key. You can also hit escape at that point to cancel. Fortunately you can skip them by hitting the escape key. His first thought, when something went wrong, was to immediately hit the escape key - even when he was nowhere near a computer. Phrases escape the clutches (or grip) of Break free from the control or grasp of. 逃跑，逃脱 thank heavens she'd escaped his clutches in time Example sentencesExamples It is thought one of the would-be bombers escaped the clutches of police and passers-by after a chase outside a tube station in south London. He spoke of his relief at escaping the clutches of Hurricane Ivan. A man held hostage in a bedsit for more than 10 days was free last night after escaping the clutches of a gunman. The days of desperately trying to escape the clutches of some crashing bore in the corner of a nightclub are long gone. Every child in Britain is to be given a crash course in how to escape the clutches of chat room paedophiles, under plans revealed yesterday. A quick-witted charity worker escaped the clutches of telephone tricksters following a warning from his residents' association. Two sisters who escaped the clutches of the Nazis in wartime Czechoslovakia and then Hungary were living 85 miles apart in northern Israel, each not knowing that the other had survived. An 11-year-old girl escaped the clutches of a would-be kidnapper when a police car passed by chance. make good one's escape Succeed in breaking free from confinement. 逃跑，逃脱 by the time they had given chase, she had made good her escape 等到他们开始追赶时，她早已逃得没有踪影了。 Example sentencesExamples It is believed that they made good their escape over neighbouring fields. His pursuers tracked him down with a bloodhound but the fugitive managed to kill the hound with an arrow and make good his escape. Spinning around, the hunter catches a glimpse of a heavy-bodied stag making good his escape over the ridge. As a security officer prepared to take him back to the cells at the end of the hearing the defendant leapt over the back of the dock and made good his escape. It is believed the men used another car to make good their escape and police are particularly keen to trace a maroon Vauxhall Astra seen earlier in the day in the pub car park. He then set fire to the flat in an attempt to cover up what he had done, before making good his escape. A woman driving a blue car and two school boys also assisted in the chase but unfortunately the offender made good his escape. The householder went to her bedroom and found that the intruder had made his exit through the window, moving items from her dressing table to make good his escape. An alarm sounded but the gang knew they had 15 minutes to make good their escape into the country roads by the village of Thornhill. Nine prisoners overpowered security guards at the Supreme Court building, and commandeered vehicles to make good their escape. Derivatives escapable adjective The book sensitively depicts internal conflict that silences abuse victims, and shows readers the situation is escapable once the truth is revealed. Example sentencesExamples This is an incalculably difficult task; after all, if a ghetto were easily escapable, who would choose to live there? For the rest of us, it's been an unbearable nightmare escapable only through alcohol and movies. Her goal was to make car trunks escapable. Heroes must be put into an easily escapable death situation. escaper noun It comes as something of a surprise to learn that many of the most dedicated Allied escapers respected their resourceful Luftwaffe antagonists. Example sentencesExamples The media place great emphasis on every prison escaper. Survival on a southern chain gang is the main theme of this book in which a prolific escaper pits himself against authority in a constant test of wills. Like every prisoner in that 18th-century castle in Saxony, Crawford was a one-man awkward squad, a habitual escaper and troublemaker. One of the country's most notorious prison escapers broke out of a top-security wing at the prison - and no-one noticed. Origin Middle English: from Old French eschaper, based on medieval Latin ex- 'out' + cappa 'cloak'. Compare with escapade. This is from Old French eschaper, based on medieval Latin ex- ‘out’ and cappa ‘cloak’, with the idea of leaving your pursuer just clutching your cloak. Escapade (mid 17th century) comes from the same source and originally had the same meaning. See also scapegoat Rhymes agape, ape, cape, chape, crape, crêpe, drape, gape, grape, jape, misshape, nape, rape, scrape, shape, tape verb.1 phr. Definition of escape in US English: escape verbəˈskeɪpəˈskāp 1no object Break free from confinement or control. 逃跑，逃脱 two burglars have just escaped from prison 两名盗窃犯刚才越狱逃跑了。 Example sentencesExamples Hundreds of prisoners have been given the opportunity to escape into a world of learning thanks to a Horwich-based training specialist. He said pollen would not escape into the local environment because sugar beet did not flower until after it had been harvested. The temptation is enormous to escape into fantasy, or close our eyes and pretend nothing has changed. She told police the attacker tied her up but that she managed to struggle free and escape into the bush. Maybe the news makes everyday life too depressing, and we want to escape into the fantasies of childhood play-acting. However, on a drab and grey day like this, the imagination is a better place than many others to escape into. And of course if you're not particularly happy when you're a child, being able to escape into a book is a wonderful thing. He was hurt in the scuffle but managed to escape into an area of woodland. He eventually left by a fire door, triggering an automatic alarm, but had escaped by the time police arrived. If ever I needed to escape into fantasy fiction that time is now. If it hadn't been for the collar, she could easily have broken free and escaped. What will happen when one of these fish escapes into the wild? In 1772 Britain declared that any escaped slave who came to Britain would automatically become free. She sought solitude and tried to escape into daydreaming. Once again, Roger Black, a convicted killer who escaped from an Iowa prison, is on the loose. After ten minutes, the boy managed to break free and escape, although the man initially gave chase. Because of its invasive nature, it often becomes a pest within an ornamental garden and readily escapes. Two men arrested on suspicion of violent disorder are currently in custody along with a woman arrested on suspicion of harbouring escaped prisoners. Living in the Yorkshire Dales, it is still just possible to escape into a world of peace and tranquillity. I followed silently behind the two guards, debating within my mind whether to break free and escape, or stay near to him. The man, a convict who has escaped from a prison ship, scares Pip into stealing him some food and a file to grind away his leg shackle. One day when Chris was at work and the kids were at school, two convicts who had escaped from jail broke into the Rodgers home in an attempt to hide from the police. Synonyms get away, get out, run away, run off, break out, break free, get free, break loose, make a break for it, bolt, clear out, flee, fly, take flight, make off, take off, decamp, abscond, take to one's heels, make a escape, make one's escape, make good one's escape, make a getaway, make one's getaway, beat a retreat, beat a hasty retreat, show a clean pair of heels, run for it, make a run for it 1.1with object Elude or get free from (someone) 逃避，躲避 he drove along I-84 to escape the police Example sentencesExamples Police believe she was escaping the abductor when she fell into the path of a passing car. Many of the villages are located in the Troodos Mountains, which is where Cypriots go to escape the maddening crowds along the coast. Take your car or two-wheeler but park it 200 meters away from the school to escape the traffic police. A serial car thief drove through a town centre at speeds of up to 70 mph to escape police. A driver who raced through Lancaster and caused a crash to escape police has been jailed for 15 months and banned from driving for two years. A 19-year-old who escaped police still wearing the handcuffs used to detain him has been brought to justice. Sacrificing the other members of the gang would be no problem if he and his brother escaped a police trap. After escaping the police, he had run along the roofs of the buildings and come to the end of the block. Unrest was triggered by the deaths of two teenagers electrocuted in a power substation where they hid to escape police. There, before me, was my means of escaping the police, who were surely chasing me by now. A boy of 15 riding a stolen moped crashed and died while trying to escape a police car, an inquest heard yesterday. A teenage motorist from Trowbridge who smashed into another car as he tried to escape police has been jailed for a year. A banned driver drove his car dangerously down St Peters Way and then demolished a lamp post as he tried to escape police. He had tried to escape the police by hiding in a doorway in Ship Street, but was found after back-up had been called for. It then swerved between parked cars as it tried to escape a pursuing police car. On the second occasion, she pleaded with paramedics at midnight to call the police because she wanted to be locked up and escape a man she claimed was after her. If you were escaping the police would you ask for the charge sheet and a copy of your statement as you absconded? So far he had escaped the police, the SAS and the army so many times he had lost count. Synonyms get away from, escape from, elude, avoid, dodge, leave behind, shake off, fend off, keep at arm's length, keep out of someone's way, steer clear of, give someone a wide berth 1.2 Succeed in avoiding or eluding something dangerous, unpleasant, or undesirable. 侥幸躲过，幸免 the driver escaped with a broken knee 司机死里逃生，但膝盖骨骨折了。 with object a baby boy narrowly escaped death 一个男婴幸免于难。 Example sentencesExamples A police officer escaped a bizarre accident with only minor injuries on Monday when a Port Authority crane overturned and smashed the boat he was in. A Colchester couple and their nine-year-old son narrowly escaped with their lives after the tsunami hit their beachfront apartment in Sri Lanka. This three-month old baby escaped with a fractured wrist, but is now an orphan as both parents were killed. Give your children the basics on how to avoid and escape potentially dangerous situations. The lorry driver escaped with minor injuries after his vehicle came to rest on its side facing back south after hitting the stationary car. Shots were fired and Tony narrowly escaped with his life. His death comes less than a fortnight after another employee of the company escaped with minor injuries after also being shot at while driving his car in the city. A man narrowly escaped with his life after crashing into the back of a lorry at around 11.45 pm. A family who narrowly escaped with their lives after their home went up in flames have been dealt a second blow after burglars broke into the damaged house and stole hundreds of pounds worth of goods. The bus driver escaped injury but police warned the attack could have had serious consequences. The rest of those in the car escaped with minor cuts and bruises. Last year, two North Yorkshire Police officers escaped speeding charges in neighbouring Cleveland because of a technicality. His friend, Neil, escaped with cuts and bruises in the assault. As it was, the boy escaped with a couple of bruises. A seven-year-old boy miraculously escaped with only slight bruising and cuts after a brick thrown through a bus window hit him in the face. The 17-year-old driver escaped with cuts and bruises. Elsewhere, police and civilians escaped injury in a failed grenade attack on a police station on the border. An elk jumped through his family's downstairs window, crashing into the kid's bed, but the toddler escaped with just a scratched cheek. Because they are so young, they are likely to escape prosecution, but police have agreed to hand over their names and addresses to bus bosses. Even West Swindon's police station hasn't escaped the epidemic with the messy scrawl appearing all over it. Synonyms avoid, evade, dodge, elude, miss, cheat, trick, sidestep, circumvent, skirt, keep out of the way of, bypass, shun, steer clear of, shirk 1.3 (of a gas, liquid, or heat) leak from a container. （气体，液体，热量）漏出；逸出 Example sentencesExamples He was found alongside the body of his girlfriend; both had been poisoned by carbon monoxide gas escaping from the apartment's oven. Gas was escaping at the house next door and there was a serious danger to life, the court heard. Their home was destroyed as they slept after gas escaped from a mains pipe into the foundations of their house and ignited. The low-tech way to protect against ice is to float a ball to keep an air hole open, letting noxious gases escape. If these gases escaped directly out of the engine, the noise generated would be tremendous. It is an enclosed box from which hazardous gases cannot escape. Because the heat escapes through the roof or windows, many home owners invest in insulation, probably made from polluting petrochemicals. Each time an exhaust valve in the engine opens, a pressure wave of hot gases escapes from the cylinder and travels down the exhaust system. This is because the gas can slowly escape through the pores of the plastic bottle. The company admitted allowing the potentially deadly chemical percholoroethylene to escape into the river. Gas had escaped from an underground main into the foundations of the bungalow, forming an explosive cloud. Returning to the house, I realised that leaving the front door wide open was probably a mistake, as a lot of heat was escaping from the kitchen. If there are any leaks in the system, radon gas will escape and be detected because of the radiation it emits. The stream of superheated water escaping from the fissure was suddenly growing larger and was now headed straight for them. Do not touch electrical switches: turning a light on or off can ignite escaping gas. Pale, grey gas escaped in a thin cloud from a minor vent on the side of the small craft. If rings are too loose, liquid may escape from jars during processing, and seals may fail. Ammonia escapes into the atmosphere during manure storage and spraying. If a lot of water's escaping, re-solder the joint; smaller leaks can be sealed off with plumber's tape. There is an undefined hiss like air escaping but right now that is it. Synonyms leak, leak out, spill, spill out, seep, seep out, ooze, ooze out, exude, discharge, emanate, issue, flow, flow out, pour, pour out, gush, gush out, drip, drain, bleed 1.4with object (of words or sounds) issue involuntarily or inadvertently from (someone or their lips) （话语，声音）（不由自主地）从…发出；由…发出 a sob escaped her lips 她不由得抽泣了起来。 Example sentencesExamples His back arched involuntarily, and a content ‘mmm’ sound escaped his lips, edged with a groan. Plopping herself daintily down on the chair opposite Leah she poured herself a bowl of cereal, not a word escaping her once. It was only when the words had escaped him that he recognised how much they gave away. The words escaped my lips with a tremble, magnified in an echo that swept through the room. Once the laugh escaped me, I noticed Toni glaring at me, and I tried not to laugh again. At one point the very beginning of a word escaped her lips, and she threw both hands to her mouth as if to stop anything further from leaking out. She smiled slightly at that but no sound escaped her. Murmured words escaped her lips, but were lost in his kiss. A scream finally escaped me and it all stopped as my lungs tore free of the rest of my chest. I ran a hand through my hair and was about to say something, when Jess stormed past, a small, frustrated sound escaping her. A sound escaped him, but she wasn't sure if what she heard was laughing or weeping. The only reason the word didn't escape her in a shriek was due to the fact that she didn't possess the energy to commit to such a sound. Despite my best efforts, a snort of laughter escaped me. She heard a sound escape him, a mix between a moan and a hiss. Every so often a noise would escape her, a small sound, but nevertheless painful to hear. A bitter bark of laughter escaped her, utterly devoid of humor. Jonathon knew what he wanted to say, but his pride would not let the words escape him. ‘No,’ I screamed, the word escaping me before I realised that it had left my lips. My mouth opened as my brain caught up with what had happened; small noises of protest escaped me, but the words flying about my mind failed to form. 2with object Fail to be noticed or remembered by (someone) 没被…注意；被…遗忘 the name escaped him 他把名字给忘掉了。 it may have escaped your notice, but this is not a hotel 你也许没有注意到，但这不是旅馆。 Example sentencesExamples Susannah tried to speak, to scream out for Jake as he'd instructed, but words completely escaped her. But the official-sounding name has not escaped the notice of those keeping a close watch on such titles. His name escapes me now (probably traumatic amnesia), but I hope his ears are burning, wherever he is. There is so much I want to say, so much I want to make the world aware of, but words escape me. With the exception of one guy, whose name escapes me right now, the DJs are a pretty poor bunch too. Someone, who's name escapes me, once said that wisdom is the ability to hold two competing ideas in one's head at any one time. Concerning the film version, as far as I'm aware it was filmed in the sixties by a Polish director, whose name escapes me. This was lead by a female teacher whose name escapes me. There's a great story, I wish I could remember the guy's name - it escapes me at the moment. Eddie is the president of some club in Melbourne, the name of which escapes me. His name escaped her at the moment, but Catherine remembered that he was a senior. And it's got that guy… the little weaselly guy whose name escapes me. The music, I'm sure you're dying to know, was the piece from the old Hamlet cigar ads - the name escapes me just now. Now, there was in Claremorris at that time a man, whose name escapes me, that was famous for the floral displays in his garden. The airport coffee shop is playing a song by a band whose name escapes me just for the moment. After a month or so, they started bringing their dog… a wheezy little pug whose name escapes me (I never did like pugs). I would like to express my formal thanks to the NHS Trust and to the doctor I saw that evening, whose name regrettably now escapes me. I hate having to come up with words to explain that I know and remember the person but that the name is momentarily escaping me. For a while, words escaped me and I couldn't imagine what to say. I'm afraid words have escaped me, and perhaps it is better as so. Opening his mouth, he started to speak, but words escaped him. If the author has given his name, it has escaped my notice. Words escaped me, and when they came, they were anything but brilliant. I am speechless, words to describe it escape me. I was just about to throttle them both but then I noticed something that had escaped me before. I thought Norwich's new defender, whose name now escapes me, was very good. We also went to this new store near Japan town, whose name escapes me. 3Computing with object Interrupt (an operation) by means of the escape key. 〔计算机〕用退出键中断（操作） Example sentencesExamples Once installed, traditional Linux / UNIX escaping, quoting or tabbing is necessary to get to directories with spaces in their names. When conducting a tag search in Movable Type, the application is not properly escaping the optional IncludeBlogs query string parameter. 3.1 Cause (a subsequent character or characters) to be interpreted differently. 使（后续字符）得到不同的解释 nounəˈskeɪpəˈskāp 1An act of breaking free from confinement or control. 逃跑，逃脱 the story of his escape from a POW camp 那个有关他从战俘营逃跑的故事。 he could think of no way of escape, short of rudeness 除了撒野之外，他再也想不出其他逃跑的办法。 Example sentencesExamples He was still tied up when the men made their escape but managed to free himself. The two men who helped in the escape attempt were executed. It seems yet another puppy had attempted to make an escape, this time a German Shepard pup. It tells the story of a 1946 escape attempt from that most infamous of prisons, Alcatraz. One group of hostages which had earlier attempted an escape were all killed. Finally, any kind of attempt at escape will mean solitary confinement for 30 days. Various escape attempts were made, but no one was out for long. The snake was half in the bag when it turned around and attempted an escape. And finally, let's stop to consider exactly which law would be broken in an escape from detention. The third spider was moving rapidly across the coffee table, attempting an escape. Later, when my kidnappers beat me up after a failed escape attempt, I became aware that their savagery was about much more than British or American foreign policy. He had been at work in one of the villages further up the coast, and was tailed by a vigilant constable as he attempted his escape. The next night, the floodlights were still on, but he felt desperate enough to attempt his escape. The plucky farmer is understood to have startled the thief who eventually broke free and made his escape to a waiting car. On Friday morning, the guards thwarted an escape attempt by 2 inmates. We attempted to make an escape, to sneak past the guards and run free to a farming town. Alexei is unable to accompany her - his price for his compliance in her escape is confinement in a Soviet work camp. During the theft he comes upon a chambermaid whom he takes hostage, then kills, as his escape attempt goes awry. Synonyms getaway, breakout, bolt for freedom, running away, flight, bolting, absconding, decamping, fleeing, flit 1.1 An act of successfully avoiding something dangerous, unpleasant, or unwelcome. 侥幸躲过，幸免 the baby was fine, but it was a lucky escape 孩子没事儿，这是不幸之中的万幸。 Example sentencesExamples On March 10, the Evening Press reported that four householders in the village had a narrow escape when a car skidded off the road and ploughed into two houses. A lorry driver and his colleague had a narrow escape when a brick hurled by youths struck just centimetres from the windscreen. We opted for the bottled water and thanked our lucky stars for our narrow escape. In York, one family had a narrow escape when a tree fell on their car. More recently he had a narrow escape when a motorist suddenly changed lanes and crossed right in front of him, forcing him to swerve to avoid a collision. Residents in a block of flats in Epsom had a narrow escape on Valentine's Day when a fire in a basement flat threatened to engulf the three-storey block. A lawyer and his family who had a narrow escape in the tsunami disaster are working in two hospitals to help the injured survivors. A local man had a narrow escape from serious injury when the tractor he was driving was in collision with a lorry at Boggan Hill on Tuesday March 26. A family of four from Pewsey has spoken of its narrow escape from the flooding disaster that devastated the Cornish village of Boscastle. Two people from Bradford had a miraculous escape after the vehicle in which they were travelling crashed through a fence. An Ambleside man had a narrow escape after stumbling and sinking up to his armpits in a bog while walking on the Lake District fells, reports Paul Duncan. Motorists had a narrow escape when a lorry carrying heavy scrap metal crashed into a bridge, shedding its load. A Cranmore woman had a narrow escape when a bullet smashed through the front window of her car during last weekend's shooting. The first recorded sighting of the Loch Ness Monster dates from the 6th century when one of Saint Columba's monks had a narrow escape from its jaws. No serious injuries were reported but the car driver had a narrow escape. An elderly couple had a narrow escape from an arson attack that would have ‘undoubtedly’ killed them. A terrified gamekeeper had a lucky escape after he managed to sprint to safety from a charging hippopotamus. A dream holiday in the Caribbean turned into a narrow escape for a pair of friends from Trowbridge as they found themselves in the path of a hurricane. A Kirkby Lonsdale woman had a narrow escape when lightning struck the shop she was working in as a violent thunderstorm engulfed the town. Last year, Kevin had a narrow escape when a stunt went horribly wrong. Synonyms avoidance of, evasion of, dodging of, eluding of, circumvention of 1.2 A means of escaping from somewhere. 逃跑方法 as modifier he had planned his escape route 他计划了逃跑线路。 Example sentencesExamples She knew she had me, that there was no escape and that the weekend that followed would be torment and humiliating. There was no escape, no way out of this. I then busied myself with the task of planning an escape route… You know, just in case. All four women began life in poverty, from which prostitution offered the only escape. Damn, I had escape routes planned from countries I'd never even been to. His escape route would no doubt be well planned, but that was of little consequence or interest to Bailey - they needed to stop the man before he made the shot. I had an escape route planned out of town, and since I'd be driving my scooter I wouldn't have to worry about traffic. When rich nations lock poorer countries out of their markets in this way, they close the door to an escape route from poverty. He was beginning to be extra glad that Miles had planned an escape route. The family members should plan two escape routes from each room and practise the plan until it is perfected. Plan an escape route in case you are washed into the sea. The files were dated June 26, 2004, and included details about escape routes, evacuation plans and road closures. I spend the next couple of hours planning my escape route. In our plan, we had never devised an emergency escape route. Another explosion rocks the ship, and suddenly the escape capsule breaks free - flying to the surface. 1.3 A form of temporary distraction from reality or routine. 暂时解脱；逃避现实；消遣；解闷 romantic novels should present an escape from the dreary realities of life 传奇小说应能让人从沉闷的现实生活中暂时解脱出来。 Example sentencesExamples They say Carnival is an escape from reality and gives people the chance to participate in a little fantasy for two days. Religion can also be used as an escape from problems. I started this blog as a creative outlet, a much needed release, an escape from reality. Online many people express fantasies or adopt identities precisely because they are an escape from reality. Unfortunately, this feeling is actually an illusion, a short-lived escape from reality. Such critics maintain that movies are simply an escape from reality - that they offer pictures of life closer to myth than actual truth. Circumstances make a schizoid reaction all too easy for us - a flight from reality and the escape from responsibility. The truth is people choose alcohol and drugs as a means of escape because their reality is too painful to deal with. The effects provide a temporary escape from reality by relieving fears, tension and anxiety. My eyes were closed, but I knew that was only a temporary escape. The very nature of popular film is to provide an escape from daily reality and monotonous routines. This was her escape from the harsh reality of the real world. This is the stuff of dreams, an escape from reality. Synonyms distraction, diversion, interruption 1.4 A leakage of gas, liquid, or heat from a container. （气体，液体，热量）漏出；逸出 Example sentencesExamples Foil and plastic facings on these foam panels help to slow the escape of gas from the cell structure. This expansion creates a metal-to-metal seal and prevents the escape of gases. The cause of the escape of gas was tracked down to a crack in an ageing pipe. The company was yesterday visiting every house in the three villages to ensure the supply was turned off to prevent escapes when the gas goes back on. Synonyms leak, leakage, spill, seepage, drip, dribble, discharge, emanation, issue, flow, outflow, outpouring, gush 1.5 A garden plant or pet animal that has gone wild and (especially in plants) become naturalized. 野化的植物（或宠物） Example sentencesExamples And Vaccinium macrocarpon (the cranberry) is now a casual escape on the Pacific coast. Gleason and Cronquist list it as an escape in Vermont and New Hampshire. This tropical China native is a rare escape from cultivation. It is most likely that the two trees are escapes or remnants from cultivation. 1.6Computing A key on a computer keyboard that either interrupts the current operation or causes subsequent characters to be interpreted differently. 〔计算机〕退出键 Example sentencesExamples It is possible to save the game at any stage in the play via the escape key. His first thought, when something went wrong, was to immediately hit the escape key - even when he was nowhere near a computer. You can also hit escape at that point to cancel. Fortunately you can skip them by hitting the escape key. Note to self: don't hit escape key while in the Blogger window, else it removes all the text that you've painstakingly put down. Origin Middle English: from Old French eschaper, based on medieval Latin ex- ‘out’ + cappa ‘cloak’. Compare with escapade.
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