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An exodus is when a great many people leave the same place at the same time — a town, a country, a workplace, a school. Newspapers like the word because it sounds big and serious. Though actually, the first Exodus is a Bible story: a whole people leaving Egypt. With a small e, we borrow that picture for any large leaving, not only a holy one. It is a noun. People leave, flee, or pour out; they do not “exodus.” A handful of people going home is not an exodus — the word wants a crowd.
大批出走；出走潮（聖經裡同名的那卷書，台灣稱「出埃及記」）
組成Borrowed from Latin Exodus, from Ancient Greek ἔξοδος (éxodos, “departure”), from ἐξ- (ex-, “out”) + ὁδός (hodós, “path, road”). In English the Bible name came first; the common noun for any large leaving is from the early 1600s.
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。
Exodusname/ˈɛksədəs/
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The departure of the Hebrew slaves from Egypt under the leadership of Moses.
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The second of the Books of Moses in the Old Testament of the Bible, the second book in the Torah describing the Exodus.
exodusnoun/ˈɛksədəs/
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A sudden departure of a large number of people.
- There were no less than three exodi from Egypt. The first was the one just named, viz: the expulsion of two hundred and forty thousand Cuthites by Halisphragmuthosis; this occurred about two hundred years before the entrance of the Israelitish shepherds into Egypt. The second exodus was that of this once holy people, under the guidance of the Almighty, through his servant Moses, the account of which we have in profane history, substantiated in the minutest particulars by the sacred writings given us through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, which protected and preserved the race. But the third is not so generally known.
- Now if, as we have seen good reason for believing, the documents were composed within forty or fifty years after the leaving of Egypt, it is hard to believe that their authors should have been so confused and so forgetful that they confounded two city-lands so distinct and separate as Goshen and Raamses, and were ignorant as to which was really the Israelite habitat when in Egypt. There suggests itself at once the hypothetical question, Were there two exodi, one from Raamses and the other from Goshen? […] Only on the hypothesis of two exodi, one to the south, the other to the north, do the two accounts of the route out of Egypt become explainable.
exodusverb/ˈɛksədəs/
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To depart from a place in a large group.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。