| 单词 | elope |
| 释义 | elope From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishelopee‧lope /ɪˈləʊp $ ɪˈloʊp/ verb [intransitive]MARRYto leave your home secretly in order to get marriedMy parents didn’t approve of the marriage, so we eloped. —elopement noun [countable, uncountable]→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpuselope• If my father won't agree to the marriage, we'll just have to elope.• A year later, on September 3,1946, they eloped.• Even a year later, she could not accept the fact that her only daughter had eloped.• Or were you going to elope?• But none, I assure you, of an age or inclination to elope with an adolescent foreigner!• Mary fell in love with Shelley and eloped with him to the Continent in 1814.• Just today one of the missionary school youth was about to elope with his new amour.Origin elope (1500-1600) Anglo-French aloper “to run away” |
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