eludes
v. (尤指机敏地)避开( elude的第三人称单数 ); 逃避; 躲避; 使达不到
If something that you want eludes you, you fail to obtain it.
Sleep eluded her...
她失眠了。
At 62, Brian found the celebrity and status that had eluded him for so long.
布赖恩在62岁时获得了多年来未能得到的名望和地位。
If you elude someone or something, you avoid them or escape from them.
He eluded the police for 13 years.
他躲过了警方抓捕达13年。
If a fact or idea eludes you, you do not succeed in understanding it, realizing it, or remembering it.
The appropriate word eluded him.
他找不到合适的字眼。
His name eludes me for the moment.
他的名字我一时想不起来了.
But philosophers seek a special sort of knowledge that eludes exact definition.
但是,哲学家所追求的是一种难以精确定义的特殊知识.
She runs at Pilly threateningly , but he eludes her, laughing.
她威胁着向皮利跑去, 但是皮利大笑着闪开了.
It's precise character eludes analysis by political scientists.
它的确切的性质如何,使政治学家在分析中感到为难.
It was like a child's puzzle, which if not solved at once eludes one for hours.
这象是测验孩子智力的玩具, 如果一下子解不成,就会把人难住几个钟头.