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exodus

/ek-suh-duhs/US // ˈɛk sə dəs //UK // (ˈɛksədəs) //

出走,出逃,出走的人,流亡

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a going out; a departure or emigration, usually of a large number of people: the summer exodus to the country and shore.
    • : the Exodus, the departure of the Israelites from Egypt under Moses.
    • : the second book of the Bible, containing an account of the Exodus. Abbreviation: Ex.

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Examples

  • When companies don’t do what they say, we see mass exoduses and even lawsuits, as has recently been the case at Pinterest and Carta.

  • The exodus isn’t necessarily good news, according to Batt and other experts.

  • Unsurprisingly, the mass exodus of the well-to-do inspired contempt among those who didn’t have the option of motoring out to their second home on Long Island or in the Catskills.

  • So the Florida Legislature created a state-run company to insure properties itself, preventing both an exodus and an economic collapse by essentially pretending that the climate vulnerabilities didn’t exist.

  • Indeed, with early evidence of an exodus from cities to suburbs amid shutdowns, new homebuyers may well be game to buy a fixer-upper.

  • Maybe even a mass exodus of Venezuelan women looking to get breast implants done in Colombia.

  • But the day before the final exodus, Christians were informed jizya was no longer an option.

  • If the bill were to become law, Vinnichenko predicts “a mass exodus” of LGBT families, including her own.

  • For New Yorkers, the mass exodus tends to have one destination in mind: The Hamptons.

  • But does the talent exodus signal trouble at the paper or only a changed media landscape?

  • There was no crowding or impeding haste in their dumb exodus.

  • From the city there was reported exodus of men whose names were enrolled for military service.

  • We saw the blonde behind the wheel and Uncle Peter seated beside her, evidently still protesting the hasty exodus.

  • One hears a frightful lot of nonsense about the Rural Exodus and the degeneration wrought by town life upon our population.

  • In a big pastoral exodus like the present, it is simply impossible to keep strays out of moving herds.