- 1逃離、逃走（因為有危險才跑，新聞用語）
To run away from a place fast because something there could hurt you. The whole point of the word is danger: you flee a fire, a war, a flood, the police. Ordinary leaving is not fleeing — you leave a party, you do not flee it, unless you are joking. It is a formal, written word; it lives in the news ('thousands fled the city') far more than in conversation, where people say 'run away', 'get out' or 'escape'. You can use it with a place straight after it (they fled the country) or with a preposition (they fled from the fighting, they fled to the mountains). Watch the forms: flee, fled, fled — the past is 'fled', not 'fleed'. The related noun is 'flight', as in 'the flight of refugees', which is the same word family as the flight of a bird but a very different feeling.
From the word’s history
From Middle English flen, from Old English flēon; related to fly and more distantly to flow.
源自古英文 flēon「逃走」，和 fly「飛」是親戚。
組成From Old English flēon, from Proto-Germanic *fleuhaną, from a very old root *plew- meaning 'to fly, flow, run'. So the oldest idea inside it is simply fast movement away — the danger part came later.
原始詞典資料3 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。
fleeverb/ˈfliː/
- 1
To run away; to escape.
- The prisoner tried to flee, but was caught by the guards.
- The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bolde as a lyon.
- 2
To escape from.
- Many people fled the country as war loomed.
- Thousands of people moved northward trying to flee the drought.
- 3
To disappear quickly; to vanish; to fleet.
- Ethereal products flee once freely exposed to air.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。