disappear
英 [ˌdɪs.əˈpɪər]
美 [ˌdɪs.əˈpɪr]
- vi. 消失;失踪;不复存在
- vt. 使…不存在;使…消失
disappear 消失dis-, 不,非,使相反。appear, 出现。
- disappear (v.)
- early 15c., disaperen, from dis- "do the opposite of" + appear. Earlier was disparish (early 15c.), from French disparaiss-, stem of disparaître. Transitive sense. "cause to disappear," is from 1897 in chemistry; by 1948 of inconvenient persons. Related: Disappeared; disappearing; disappears. Slang disappearing act is originally of magic shows; in figurative sense of "getting away" first attested 1913.
- 1. She stood watching the car's tail-lights disappear down the drive.
- 她站在那儿,望着小汽车的尾灯消失在车道尽头。
- 2. He saw something dark disappear behind the curtain of leaves.
- 他看到一个黑漆漆的东西从浓密的树叶后消失了。
- 3. It was uncharacteristic of her father to disappear like this.
- 就这样消失不像她父亲的一贯作风。
- 4. Year by year great swathes of this small nation's countryside disappear.
- 年复一年,这个小国家的乡村面积正在一片片地大量消失。
- 5. The snow will soon disappear when the warm weather comes.
- 天气变暖时,雪很快就会融化.