evacuations

英 [ɪˌvækjʊˈeɪʃənz]

美 [ɪˌvækjəˈweɪʃənz]

n.  疏散；撤离；后撤；抽空；排气；排泄
evacuation的复数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 疏散;使撤离;转移
  Toevacuatesomeone means to send them to a place of safety, away from a dangerous building, town, or area.
  1. They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country...
     他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。
  2. Since 1951, 18,000 people have been evacuated from the area.
     自1951年以来，已有18, 000人撤离了该地区。
• VERB （尤指因为危险而）撤离，撤出，搬出
  If peopleevacuatea place, they move out of it for a period of time, especially because it is dangerous.
  1. The fire is threatening about sixty homes, and residents have evacuated the area...
     大火正威胁着大约60户人家，居民已经从该地区撤离。
  2. Officials ordered the residents to evacuate.
     官员命令居民撤离。

双语例句

• Bomb threats that led to the evacuations of four Harvard University campus buildings this week were made by a student trying to get out of taking a final exam, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
  联邦检察官周二称，哈佛大学因受到爆炸威胁紧急疏散了四所建筑里的人群，而发出爆炸威胁的是一名企图逃避期末考试的哈佛本校学生。
• The evacuations of these government bodies exerted a profound influence on the politics, economy and culture of the Kuomintang areas in Zhejiang.
  它们的迁移对浙省国统区的政治、经济、文化产生了深刻的影响。
• The street closings and evacuations were prompted by a police investigation of a suspicious van that local media reported had been parked on Broadway for two days.
  这条街被关闭和疏散是由于警方调查一个可疑的面包车。据当地媒体报道，该车曾在百老汇停了两天。
• In New York, the tremors prompted evacuations of courthouses, City Hall and halted work at the World Trade Center construction site.
  在纽约，震颤提示撤离法院，市政厅，在世界贸易中心施工现场，并停止工作。
• Conventionally, builders of high-rises have assumed staged evacuations will occur.
  按照惯例，高层建筑的建造者会假设将发生分阶段疏散。
• That prompted evacuations of numerous villages in Fukushima prefecture, a primarily agricultural area, where crops were irradiated.
  迫使作为重要农业县份的福岛无数村庄迁移。因为当地的农产品受到核辐射。
• Two separate scares forced partial evacuations of the State Department in Washington and the New York Times offices, after suspicious samples of white powder were found in incoming post.
  在两次从收到的邮件中发现可疑白色粉末后，华盛顿的国务院和“纽约时报”办公楼曾被迫部分疏散。
• Tremors registering at a magnitude of 3.9 were felt in Beijing, provoking frantic evacuations at office towers throughout the city.
  北京记录到3.9级的地震，有震感，整个城市的办公大楼在惊慌中被疏散。
• In the words of Lillibridge: "The lack of water pressure to hospitals in Houston during the immediate post-disaster period almost resulted in one of the largest patient evacuations in history."
  用Lillibridge的话来说，“由于灾后时期休斯敦各家医院存在水压不足问题，几乎导致了有史以来规模最大的一次患者疏散行动。”
• If there were another disaster tomorrow, the prime minister still could not call on specially trained experts or employ the full legal powers to cope with it, for example by ordering evacuations.
  如果明天突然再发生一起灾难，首相还是不能召集有特种资历的专家团队，也不能完全行驶法律权力－例如下令疏散－来处理灾害。