核心畫面

Picture a space being emptied out because staying in it is not safe: the alarm goes, and everyone moves out until nothing is left inside. English lets you say it from either end — move the people out, or empty the building — and medicine borrows the same 'empty it out' for the body.

可以想成:一個空間因為待著不安全而被清空——警報一響,所有人往外移動,直到裡面什麼都不剩。英文可以從兩端來說這件事:更多收起可以想成:一個空間因為待著不安全而被清空——警報一響,所有人往外移動,直到裡面什麼都不剩。英文可以從兩端來說這件事:把人帶出去,或是把建築清空;醫學上則借用同一個「清空」來講身體。

From the picture

把體內清空

同樣是「把裡面的東西排空」,只是空間換成身體。這一支只出現在醫療語境裡。

empty the bowels · verb · C1

To empty waste from your bowels (formal medical language).

排便

Also in this word

evacuate people · verb · B1

To move people out of a dangerous place to somewhere safer.

疏散;撤離

clear a place · verb · B1

To make all the people in a place leave it, so that the place is left empty.

撤離;清空(場所)

原始詞典資料6 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。

evacuateverb/ɪˈvæk.ju.eɪt/

  • 1

    To leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from.

    • The soldiers evacuated the fortress.
    • The firefighters told us to evacuate the area as the flames approached.
  • 2

    To cause (or help) to leave or withdraw from.

    • The firefighters decided to evacuate all the inhabitants from the street.
    • Early the next morning I set off on the long and hazardous trek through jungles and hills into Assam, and regretfully said "good-bye" to the gallant little Burma Railways, which had functioned to the last and played a big part in evacuating many thousands of refugees and wounded soldiers in the path of the rapidly advancing Japanese.
  • 3

    To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum.

    • The scientist evacuated the chamber before filling it with nitrogen.
  • 4

    To make empty; to deprive.

    • Evacuate the Scriptures of their most important doctrines.
  • 5

    To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bladder or the bowels (to stool).

    • In the living state, the body is observed to receive aliment; to assimilate a part; to evacuate what is redundant or useless; [...]
  • 6

    To make void; to nullify; to vacate.

    • to evacuate a contract or marriage
    • it would not evacuate a marriage after cohabitation and actual consummation

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