eludes
v. (尤指機敏地)避開( elude的第三人稱單數 ); 逃避; 躲避; 使達不到
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.
布賴恩在62歲時獲得了多年來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.
他躲過了警方抓捕達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.
他找不到合適的字眼。
His name eludes me for the moment.
他的名字我一時想不起來了.
But philosophers seek a special sort of knowledge that eludes exact definition.
但是,哲學家所追求的是一種難以精確定義的特殊知識.
She runs at Pilly threateningly , but he eludes her, laughing.
她威脅著向皮利跑去, 但是皮利大笑著閃開了.
It's precise character eludes analysis by political scientists.
它的確切的性質如何,使政治學家在分析中感到為難.
It was like a child's puzzle, which if not solved at once eludes one for hours.
這象是測驗孩子智力的玩具, 如果一下子解不成,就會把人難住幾個鐘頭.