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To elope is to leave home in secret in order to get married — usually because someone would try to stop you. The secret is the point: you do not announce the wedding; you slip away and marry, and the family finds out afterwards. English speakers still use it for a sudden, private marriage, even when the couple is grown and nobody is truly chasing them; the word keeps a little romance and a little scandal. It is not a general word for running away. If you leave home because you are angry, you run away; if you leave in order to marry, you elope. It is a little old-fashioned and story-like, more at home in novels and news headlines than in a text to a friend, though people still know it at once. You elope with someone, or a couple elopes.
組成From Anglo-Norman aloper ('to abduct, run away'), borrowed from a West Germanic verb meaning 'to run away'. It matches an old prefix and- ('away') plus lope ('run'). The same old running-word also gave leap; lope and leap are doublets — two English children of one parent.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
elopeverb/ɪˈləʊp/
- 1
Of a married or engaged person, to run away from home with a paramour.
- 2
Of an unmarried person, to run away secretly for the purpose of getting married with one's intended spouse; to marry in a quick or private fashion, especially without a public period of engagement.
- My younger sister has left all her friends-- has eloped; has thrown herself into the power of-- of Mr. Wickham.
- Although Cecilia was the youngest of the surviving Thrale daughters, she had been the first to marry, eloping to Gretna Green in 1795 with John Meredith Mostyn of neighboring Llewesog Lodge. Both were underage.
- 3
To escape from one's caretaker.
- Six-year-old Casey eloped during recess and police found him watching traffic lights at the intersection.
- 4
datedTo run away from home (for any reason).
- He had been intended by his father for trade, but his spirit, soaring above the occupation for which he was designed, from repining led him to resist, and from resisting, to rebel. He eloped from his friends, and contrived to enter the army.
- That horrid girl of mine has been trying to run away. I had not a notion of her being such a little devil before, she seemed to have all the Vernon milkiness; but on receiving the letter in which I declared my intention about Sir James, she actually attempted to elope; at least, I cannot otherwise account for her doing it. She meant, I suppose, to go to the Clarks in Staffordshire, for she has no other acquaintances.
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