Word · CEFR B1 · Frequency #1697
escape
逃脱；逃出；越狱
to get free; to free oneself, especially from confinement
- 1.
To get free; to free oneself.
获得自由；使自己解脱。
- 2.
To break out of confinement.
逃出监禁；越狱。
- 3.
To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
躲避(讨厌的人或事物)；逃避,摆脱。
- 4.
To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
逃避抓捕；免受惩罚。
- 5.
To avoid responsibilities and stresses for a time.
暂时逃避责任和压力。
- 6.
To be forgotten by.
被遗忘。
- 7.
To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
逃过...的注意；未被看见或记起。
- 8.
To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the same context, often by prefixing with another character.
使(字符)转义；按字面意义解释。
- 9.
To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
按 Esc 键等中止程序或命令。
- 10.
To grow wild, instead of in a cultivated area.
(植物)逸生,野生化。
- 11.
To express, especially involuntarily.
不由自主地发出；流露。
躲避；逃避；摆脱；被遗忘；逃过（某人的注意）；（不由自主地）发出；流露；按 Esc 键中止（程序/命令）；转义
In use
The prisoner escaped from the jail last night.
She managed to escape the burning building through a window.
The bird escaped from its cage and flew away.
Verb forms
base escape · third person escapes · -ing escaping · past escaped · past participle escaped
Connections
Collocations
- escape from prison
- 越狱；逃出监狱
- He escaped from prison by digging a tunnel.他挖隧道越狱了。
- escape punishment
- 逃避惩罚
- The corrupt official escaped punishment for years.那个腐败官员多年来逃避了惩罚。
- escape notice
- 逃过注意；未被察觉
- The typo escaped my notice until after I sent the email.那个笔误直到我发完邮件之后才被注意到。
- escape reality
- 逃避现实
- Many people use video games to escape reality.许多人用电子游戏逃避现实。
- escape capture
- 逃脱抓捕
- The thief escaped capture by jumping onto a moving train.那个小偷跳上一列行驶中的火车，逃脱了追捕。
- escape death
Learner notes
Memory Tip
escape 里藏着 cape（斗篷），想象披上斗篷悄然逃离现场，即“逃脱”。
Context & Register
语域：mixed 常见场景：日常对话（逃跑／脱身）、新闻报道（越狱／逃脱）、书面叙述（躲避／摆脱）、计算机或技术说明（字符转义） escape 是标准中性动词，但在不同搭配和场合中意思差别明显：如 escape from prison 常见于新闻报道，escape responsibility 多见于书面语，escape 作“转义”用于技术语境。因此整体标为混合，具体译法需根据上下文判断。
Pronunciation & Spelling
以上单词都以 /-eɪp/ 音结尾，与 escape 的最后一个音节 /skeɪp/ 押韵。注意：escort、escalate 等以 esc- 开头的单词拼写相似，但发音完全不同；cape 和 cap 拼写相近，但 cap 读 /kæp/，元音不同。
High-value vocabulary
该词属于 Oxford 核心词汇，值得优先掌握常见搭配和句型。
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 4，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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