| 单词 | vanishing |
| 释义 | vanishing (once / 1582 pages) n When something is there one minute and gone the next, you can describe its disappearance as a vanishing. Magicians practice long and hard to pull off the trick they call vanishing, while the art of vanishing seems to come easily to cats. Any time something — or someone — disappears mysteriously, it's a vanishing. The word vanishing is a gerund, or a noun that's made by adding ing to a verb, in this case vanish. It in turn comes from the Latin evanescere, "disappear," whose root word is vanus, or "empty." WORD FAMILYvanishing: vanishings+/vanish: vanished, vanisher, vanishes, vanishing/vanisher: vanishers USAGE EXAMPLESBut the fact that they describe a teetering world of rigid class boundaries and vanishing deference is often mistaken for a tacit endorsement. The Guardian(Dec 30, 2016) If the day is hazy, McKim finds every misty color at play in both his foregrounds and vanishing points. Seattle Times(Dec 27, 2016) More likely, he simply wanted to prevent his music from vanishing. The New Yorker(Dec 25, 2016) 1n a sudden or mysterious disappearance Hyper disappearance the event of passing out of sight 2n a sudden disappearance from sight Hyper disappearance, disappearing the act of leaving secretly or without explanation |
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