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elope

/ih-lohp/US // ɪˈloʊp //UK // (ɪˈləʊp) //

私奔,奔放,奔跑,奔跑吧

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v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    e·loped, e·lop·ing.

    • : to run off secretly to be married, usually without the consent or knowledge of one's parents.
    • : to run away with a lover.
    • : to leave without permission or notification; escape: At age 21, the apprentice eloped from his master.
    • : to leave or run away from a safe area or safe premises.

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Examples

  • Fast-forward, we borrow that car to drive from San Francisco to Palm Springs, and we eloped!

  • On Dec. 22, 1799, Sands told her cousins that she would be leaving to elope with a fellow boarder named Levi Weeks that night.

  • Daughters who elope and dare to choose their own husbands are also considered dishonorable.

  • She did not, however, believe they would elope, which is a great relief.

  • I wanted to elope, but Charles really wants to have a party for our friends.

  • Suffice it to say, a mutual passion was conceived between the two cousins, and my father persuaded her to elope with him.

  • I assure you that I wouldn't offer to elope with a suffrage tract, or a skirted treatise on socialism.

  • I've never done anything romantic in my life, and I've always wanted to elope, or something.

  • A couple of months ago she did me the honour to elope—temporarily, of course—with M. Paul Destournelle.

  • I could not elope with the shadow, it slipped away when the horse started, and waited on the road for its lawful owner.

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