詞彙精選：disappear的用法和辨析

一、詳細釋義：

v.

消失，不見；失蹤 [I]

例句：

My wAllet has disappeared from the table.

我放在桌子上的錢包不見了。

例句：

All at once Phil disappeared.

菲爾突然不見了。

不復存在；滅絕 [I]

例句：

Their power and energy began to disappear.

他們的力量和精力不復存在了。

例句：

The dinosaurs disappeared long ago.

恐龍很久以前就絕種了。

【口】【婉】失蹤；被囚禁了 [I]

例句：

The children "disappeared" with their parents when security forces invaded their home in Buenos Aires.

孩子們在安全部隊攻擊他們布宜諾斯艾利斯的家時隨着父母“失蹤”了。

二、詞義辨析：

vanish,disappear,fade,evaporate

這些動詞均有“消失”之意。vanish語氣強，指完全、往往是神祕而突然的消失，不留任何蛛絲馬跡。disappear普通用詞，強調從視線或腦海中消失。這消失可能是暫時的、突然的或永久的，視上下文而定。 fade側重逐漸消失。evaporate指像水蒸發時那樣悄然逝去，也指某人悄悄地、突然退出或離去。

三、參考例句：

And then make the sucker disappear.

會讓這些傻瓜消失。

He makes a coin disappear by sleight of hand.

他一轉手便把硬幣變得沒了。

Mountains and valleys emerge and disappear due to plate tectonics.

因爲版塊構造，山川與河流顯現。

He desperately saw her disappear into the crowd.

他絕望地看着她消失在人羣中。

Without reading, civilization would disappear in one generation.

少了閱讀，文明在一代內就會消失了。

The snow will soon disappear when the warm weather comes.

天氣變暖時,雪很快就會融化。

He saw something dark disappear behind the curtain of leaves.

他看到一個黑漆漆的東西從濃密的樹葉後消失了。

Sinus arrhythmia also tends to disappear with advancing age.

隨着年齡的增長，竇性心律不齊也趨於消失。

Any lumps will soon disappear with a little mixing.

如果有一些結塊也沒有關係，稍微再攪動一下就好。

Then the sore losers will disappear one by one.

然後那些輸不起的人會一個個消失。