核心畫面

Picture something passing out of sight — round a corner, into fog, behind a door. The three uses differ only in how final it is: gone from view for now, gone and not findable, or gone from the world altogether.

可以想成:一樣東西走出了視線——轉過街角、沒入霧裡、關進門後。三個用法的差別只在「消失得多徹底」:一時看不見、怎麼找更多收起可以想成:一樣東西走出了視線——轉過街角、沒入霧裡、關進門後。三個用法的差別只在「消失得多徹底」:一時看不見、怎麼找都找不到、還是根本不再存在了。

From the picture

不再存在

從「看不見」走到「沒有了」:不是藏起來,而是慢慢地不再存在、不再發生。

stop existing · verb · B1

To stop existing or happening, often little by little over time.

消失;不再存在

Also in this word

go out of sight · verb · B1

To go where people cannot see it any longer.

消失(不見)

become lost · verb · B1

To become lost, so that no one can find it, even after they look for it.

不見了;找不到

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

disappearverb/dɪsəˈpɪə/

  • 1

    To vanish.

  • 2

    To go missing; to become a missing person.

    • Eighteen years after Jaycee Dugard disappeared in 1991, she was found alive in the summer of 2009.
  • 3

    To go away; to become lost.

    • I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields[…]. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair,[…]. My client welcomed the judge […] and they disappeared together into the Ethiopian card-room, which was filled with the assegais and exclamation point shields Mr. Cooke had had made at the sawmill at Beaverton.
    • A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He had disappeared.
  • 4

    To make vanish; especially, to abduct or murder for political reasons.

    • The Chinese government is well-known for disappearing particularly vocal political dissidents.
    • "Did they disappear him?" "I don’t know." "What will you do if they decide to disappear you?"

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。