elusive是什么意思

双语例句

(1)These drug gangs are the most elusive people I've ever met.

这帮毒枭是我目前接触过的最难以捉摸的人。

(2)For her, fame remains elusive yet.

对她来说，成名仍然遥不可及。

(3)An open pharmacy in the middle of the night is quite elusive.

深夜很难找到开着门的药店。

(4)The physics term is very elusive for common people.

这个物理术语对普通人而言太难以表述了

(5)He's very elusive and rarely speaks about himself.

他令人难以捉摸，很少谈及自己。

(6)Try to catch the elusive charm of the original in translation.

翻译时设法把握住原文中难以捉摸的风韵。

(7)Both of us are biologists, so we swerved to talk about the elusive chameleon.

我俩都是生物学家，便转而去讨论这难以捉摸的变色龙。

(8)Eric, as elusive as ever, was nowhere to be found.

埃里克总是这样神出鬼没，哪儿也找不着。

(9)In Denver late-night taxis are elusive and far from cheap.

在丹佛，深夜出租车很难找，而且绝不便宜。

(10)A solution to the problem of toxic waste is proving elusive.

有毒废料这个问题证明难以解决。

同义词

adj. 难懂的；易忘的；逃避的；难捉摸的

同根词

词根 elude

(1)elusion n. 逃避；回避

(2)elusiveness n. 狡诈；易闪避；飘忽不定；巧妙逃避

(3)elude vt. 逃避，躲避

释义

adj.

difficult to find, catch, or achieve

难以找到（或捉住、达到、得到）的

success will become ever more elusive.

成功将变得更加难以获得。

difficult to remember or recall

难记的；不易想起的

the elusive thought he had had moments before.

他刚才的一个转瞬即逝的想法。

词源

"early 18th cent.: from Latin elus- ‘eluded '（from the verb eludere） + -IＶＥ."

(1)The human engineers were not up to the task, so I built you, and together you and I captured that elusive thing, heart.

人类工程师却又不能胜任，所以我创造了你，我和你一起捕捉到难以捉摸的事物内心。《Westworld Season 1》《西部世界 第一季》

(2)Escape from surveillance? One of them has proven to be particularly elusive, avoiding cameras and detection.

逃过了监控？其中一位尤其神秘莫测，避开了全部的监控侦查。《Person of Interest Season 4》《疑犯追踪 第四季》

(3)We have yet to discover a dark matter particle, but scientists all over the world are searching for this elusive particle or particles and the effects of dark matter on the universe.

目前我们还没能发现一块暗物质颗粒，但全世界的科学家们都在探索这个或这些神秘的物质以及它对宇宙所产生的影响。《TED-Ed》《TED教育》