vanish
verbVerb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they vanish | |
| he / she / it vanishes | |
| past simple vanished | |
| past participle vanished | |
| -ing form vanishing |
- [intransitive]
to disappear suddenly and/or in a way that you cannot explain （莫名其妙地）突然消失 He turned around and vanished into the house. 他转身消失在房子里。 The magician vanished in a puff of smoke. 魔术师在一股烟雾中突然不见了。 My glasses seem to have vanished. 我的眼镜似乎不翼而飞了。 He vanished without trace. 他消失得无影无踪。
Extra ExamplesI turned around and she had simply vanished. 我转过身时她已经没了踪影。 She vanished into the mist. 她消失在薄雾中。 a man who mysteriously vanished from his home last month 上个月从家中神秘失踪的男子 The boys vanished without trace during a snowstorm. 那些男孩在一次暴风雪中消失得无影无踪。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- just
- simply
- abruptly
- …
- seem to
- make somebody/something
- from
- into
- vanish from the face of the earth
- vanish from sight
- vanish into thin air
- …
- [intransitive]
to stop existing 不复存在；消亡；绝迹 the vanishing woodlands of Europe 不断消失的欧洲林地 All hopes of a peaceful settlement had now vanished. 和平解决的全部希望现已化为泡影。 All thoughts of leaving vanished from his mind. 他离开的一切念头都消失了。
Extra ExamplesHer feelings of shyness rapidly vanished. 她的羞涩很快就消失了。 Many of these old cinemas have now vanished altogether. 很多这样的老影院现今已经绝迹了。 Much of the land we loved has vanished forever. 我们所热爱的土地许多都已经永远地消失了。 The people who built this temple have long since vanished. 修建这座庙宇的人早已不在了。 This plant is vanishing from our countryside. 这种植物在我们的乡村逐渐消失。 a way of life that has now all but vanished 现在差不多已经绝迹的生活方式 The canal crosses the site of an ancient lake, long since vanished. 运河早已消失，却穿越了一个古老的湖泊。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- altogether
- completely
- entirely
- …
- from
Word OriginMiddle English: shortening of Old French e(s)vaniss-, lengthened stem of e(s)vanir, from Latin evanescere ‘die away’.
Idioms
disappear/vanish off the face of the earth
disappear, vanish, etc. into thin air
to disappear suddenly in a mysterious way （莫名其妙地）突然消失 She can’t just have vanished into thin air. 她不能只是消失在稀薄的空气中。 At a stroke she could make things vanish into thin air. 她用手碰到什么就能让它消失不见。
do, perform, stage a disappearing/vanishing act
- (informal)
to go away or be impossible to find when people need or want you 隐藏踪迹；潜踪隐迹 The cat had done a disappearing act. 那只猫玩起了失踪。