介绍一个很有趣儿的词“elude”

今天想起了一个很有趣儿的单词“elude“，和您分享一下。我们先看一下词典中的解释：

Collins：If you elude someone or something, you avoid them or escape from them.

Cambridge：If something that you want eludes you, you do not succeed in achieving it:

“Elude“的本意为避开（evade），但当使用”something eludes someone“的句型时，句子中便会隐含着淡淡地”有意避开“或”无缘相会“的含义。

例句：

1.The gold medal continues to elude her.

2.Sleep eluded her.

您能从上面两个例句中体会出那种淡淡的无奈感吗？

现在看一下另一个表示逃避的单词evade，

Collins：

1.If you evade something, you find a way of not doing something that you really ought to do.

2.If you evade a question or a topic, you avoid talking about it or dealing with it.

例句：

1.Delegates accused them of evading responsibility for recent failures.

2.Too many companies, she says, are evading the issue.

您看明白了吗，evade专指“有意避开（get away from）“，在这层意思上，evade和elude可以互换使用。