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decamp

/dih-kamp/US // dɪˈkæmp //UK // (dɪˈkæmp) //

流失,流落街头,流亡,流落他乡

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v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to depart from a camp; to pack up equipment and leave a camping ground: We decamped before the rain began.
    • : to depart quickly, secretly, or unceremoniously: The band of thieves decamped in the night.

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Examples

  • Once a year growing up, my family would decamp to Lake Taupo for trout season.

  • Elizabeth decamped to Britain along with her companion and ward, Kitty, whom she adopted as a child.

  • By 2020, the paper’s prize-winning investigative reporter and some of its top editors had decamped to a new, nonprofit newsroom, Mountain State Spotlight.

  • Peter took precautions before and during his flights to Richmond, and if the in-person connection with Betty proved flimsy, he figured he could always decamp to his mother’s place.

  • Most decamped to more encrypted messaging apps after Parler, a social app popular with conservatives, went offline when Amazon pulled its hosting services.

  • Within a couple of years he intends to decamp for either San Diego or San Francisco.

  • For starters, you must eliminate excess, so, if you wished, you could decamp on a dime.

  • Since the evening before, aides-decamp, leaving the governor's palace, galloped in every direction.

  • To "shoot the moon," as the English say, is to decamp from a house without paying the rent.

  • A pleasant sight it was, to behold the prelates occupied in hunting him, for he would not decamp!

  • All at once it struck me that if I really frightened him too much they might decamp without making a clean sweep.

  • Mr. Farrar is housekeeper, and 'tidies up' with such vigour that his three comrades threaten to give up their lodgings and decamp.