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单词 exit
释义

exit

/ˈɛksɪt / /ˈɛɡzɪt /
noun
1A way out of a building, room, or passenger vehicle: she slipped out by the rear exit an emergency exit...
  • The blonde walked out of the room and toward the exits of the building.
  • I nodded, bored, taking a sideways glance towards the exit door from the building.
  • Sam turned on her heel and walked the other way, towards the rear exit of the building.

Synonyms

way out, door, egress, passage out, escape route;
doorway, gate, gateway, portal;
outlet, vent
1.1A place for traffic to leave a major road or roundabout: she slowed for a roundabout, taking the second exit...
  • They will tower over drivers from either side of slip road exits and entrances at junction three for the 12-month trial period.
  • She called for better traffic light filter systems, widened access roads and more exits from the car parks.
  • It will also tell you when your freeway exit is coming, and if you're not familiar with the area, it will even tell you what side of the road the exit is on.

Synonyms

turning, turn-off, turn, side road;
North American turnout
2An act of leaving a place: he made a hasty exit from the room...
  • During the spring migration in the western Bering Strait, at the exit from the Gulf of Anadyr, whales moved over a broad front from near shore out to sea.
  • I turned the engine on and made a swift exit from the people's place, after all, if the owner had come out front, there may well have been a query as to what I was doing in the driveway.
  • It was close on 4 a.m. when we hit the road for the west, availing of the quiet streets of Dublin to make an easy exit from the city.
2.1A departure from a particular situation: Australia’s early exit from the World Cup...
  • A comfortable exit from this situation would allow him to declare himself injured and thus unavailable to compete.
  • You are truly disturbed and want to quit, but nothing you say works to get your exit from this unexpectedly distressing situation.
  • He flashed them a smile and I decided that the best way to handle the situation was a dramatic exit.
2.2 literary A person’s death.
verb (exits, exiting, exited) [no object]
1Go out of or leave a place: he exited from the changing rooms the bullet entered her back and exited through her chest [with object]: queues of vehicles tried to exit the airfield...
  • Each aisle was first entered and exited from the back of the store opposite the cashier counters.
  • While I was waiting at the arrivals gate, a large group of people exited from the flight previous to the one I was waiting for.
  • The small old men exited from the dramatic scene ashen-faced.

Synonyms

leave, go (out), depart, take one's leave, make one's departure, make an exit;
withdraw, retreat, retire
informal quit
1.1 (exit) Used as a stage direction in a play to indicate that an actor leaves the stage: exit Pamela
1.2Leave a particular situation: organizations which do not have freedom to exit from unprofitable markets...
  • This may mean that buyers will not allow prices to rise like last time, but it could also mean that owners will be more ready to exit from the market.
  • Firms have been quietly reducing excess capacity and exiting unprofitable businesses.
  • One explanation for these declines is obvious: Wives now have more freedom to exit bad relationships.
1.3 literary Die.
1.4 Computing Terminate a process or program: this key enables you to temporarily exit from a LIFESPAN option...
  • A user can right-click on that to exit the program - thereby preventing it from recording Web surfing, e-mail and chat sessions.
  • Changing modes like this does, however, require that you then exit the program and restart it for the changes to take effect.
  • To exit the program, hit Alt-F again, and hit X or use the arrow keys to select Exit.
1.5 Bridge Relinquish the lead: declarer must cash his top spades and exit with ♦2

Derivatives

exitless

adjective ...
  • Within scant minutes, DeWolf's shrewd cross-examination had entangled Hood in an exitless maze of contradictions and obvious lies.
  • I think that Bernstein is wrong to celebrate the transformation of university literature departments into cultural studies departments, because that is already to capitulate before the establishment of 'culture' as an exitless quarantine for ideas.
  • Humans are marvellously adaptable, aren't they, even to squalor and exitless madhouses.

Origin

Mid 16th century (as a stage direction): from Latin exit 'he or she goes out', third person singular present tense of exire, from ex- 'out' + ire 'go'. The noun (late 16th century) is from Latin exitus 'going out', from the verb exire, and the other verb uses (early 17th century) derive from it.

  • Exit was used during the time of Shakespeare as a stage direction meaning ‘he or she goes out’, which is the word's literal meaning in Latin. (The plural equivalent, ‘they go out’, is exeunt.) One of the best-known uses of the word is in a speech from Shakespeare's As You Like It: ‘All the world's a stage, / And all the men and women merely players: / They have their exits and their entrances; /And one man in his time plays many parts, / His acts being seven ages.’ Shakespeare is also responsible for what must be the must famous of all stage directions, from The Winter's Tale: ‘Exit, pursued by a bear’. People started using exit to mean ‘a way out’ at the end of the 17th century. The sounds of the Latin were softened in French to become the source of issue (Middle English).

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