disappeared
/ˌdɪs.əˈpɪəd/ (bre, ipa) · [dˌɪsəpˈɪrd] /ˌdɪs.əˈpɪrd/ (ame, ipa) · [dˌɪsəpˈird] /ˌdis-ə-ˈpir How to pronounce disappear (audio)/ (ame, mw)
disappeared — 名詞
1. people whom a state or armed group has secretly taken away, killed, or put in pr
政治失蹤者
遭政府秘密帶走而下落不明的人
people whom a state or armed group has secretly taken away, killed, or put in prison for political reasons, and whose families are given no information about what happened to them
The mothers of the disappeared gathered in the capital to demand answers.
失蹤者的母親們聚集在首都要求一個交代。
the disappeared — always used with 'the'
Elena searches for her father among the three thousand disappeared buried in unmarked graves outside Santiago.
Elena在Santiago郊外的三千座無名墳墓中尋找她失蹤的父親。
A stone memorial in Córdoba was built to honour the disappeared of the civil war.
在Córdoba，一座石碑建了起來，紀念內戰中的失蹤者。
Thandi spent forty years searching for her brother among the disappeared.
Thandi花了四十年在失蹤者之中尋找她的兄弟。
Santiago’s national archive holds photographs and names of the disappeared from the Pinochet years.
Santiago的國家檔案館收藏了Pinochet年代失蹤者的照片和姓名。
- the missing
broader term; covers anyone unaccounted for, not only political victims
用法筆記
Always plural and almost always used with the definite article 'the': 'the disappeared.' The term became widely known through Latin American human rights movements of the 1970s and 1980s.
disappeared — 動詞
- disappearedpresent simple I / you / we / they
- disappeareds3rd person singular
- disappeareding-ing form
- disappearededpast simple
1. to go out of sight so that you can no longer see the person or thing
消失
從視線中消失，無法再看見
to go out of sight so that you can no longer see the person or thing
Mei's cat disappeared under the sofa when the doorbell rang.
Mei的貓在門鈴響時躲到沙發底下消失了。
intransitive: disappear + under + location
The aeroplane disappeared into the clouds above the airport.
飛機消失在機場上空的雲層裡。
intransitive: disappear + into + location
Dimitri watched the small boat disappear over the horizon.
Dimitri望著那艘小船消失在海平線上。
Grandmother’s full jar of biscuits disappeared from the kitchen cupboard while she was out.
祖母滿滿一罐餅乾在她外出時從廚房櫃子裡消失了。
Fatima looked up and found the bird had disappeared from the branch.
Fatima抬頭一看，發現那隻鳥已經從樹枝上消失了。
- vanish
suggests a sudden, complete, and often mysterious disappearance
- fade
describes a slow, gradual loss of visibility rather than a quick exit
- go missing
used mainly for people or objects unexpectedly not where they should be
- emerge
to come out from behind or inside something
文法句型
disappear + into/under/behind/from + noun
2. to stop existing; to be lost, gone, or no longer felt — used about feelings, cus
消逝
停止存在或不再被感受到
to stop existing; to be lost, gone, or no longer felt — used about feelings, customs, species, and things that fade out of the world over time
Kwame’s fear of the dark disappeared after his eighth birthday sleepover.
Kwame對黑暗的恐懼在他八歲生日過夜派對後消失了。
disappear + as-clause for gradual change
Yuki’s village lantern festival disappeared after the young families all moved away.
Yuki村裡的燈籠節在年輕家庭全都搬走後消失了。
The pain in Lakshmi's knee disappeared after a week of rest.
Lakshmi膝蓋的疼痛在休息一週後消失了。
Those small family-run shops are slowly disappearing from our streets.
那些小型家庭經營的店鋪正慢慢地從我們的街上消失。
All hope of finding the two climbers alive on Mount Kenya had disappeared by dawn.
在Mount Kenya找到兩名登山者生還的所有希望，在黎明時已徹底消失。
文法句型
disappear + gradually/completely/forever
用法筆記
Distinguish from sense 1 (PASS FROM VIEW): this sense describes things that end or fade over time — feelings, customs, species, opportunities — rather than physical objects moving out of sight.
常見錯誤
3. to make a person or thing go away or become impossible to find, often by acting
弄不見
刻意讓某人或某物消失
to make a person or thing go away or become impossible to find, often by acting deliberately or using magic
The magician disappeared a borrowed watch right in front of us.
魔術師就在我們眼前把借來的手錶變不見了。
transitive: disappear + object (thing made to vanish)
Javier disappeared the evidence before the police could search the flat.
Javier在警察搜查公寓前把證據弄不見了。
The accountants at Orion Shipping disappeared the missing millions from the quarterly report.
Orion Shipping的會計把短少的數百萬從季度報告中弄不見了。
A single wrong click disappeared every family photo from Tala's computer.
一個錯誤的點擊就把Tala電腦裡所有的家庭照片弄不見了。
The waiter disappeared our empty plates while we were still talking.
服務生在我們還在聊天時就把空盤子弄不見了。
- remove
more neutral; does not carry the suggestion of secrecy or magic
- spirit away
emphasises swift, secret removal of a person or thing
- make vanish
similar meaning but more wordy; 'disappear' is the concise transitive form
文法句型
disappear + object (person or thing)
用法筆記
This is the transitive counterpart of senses 1 and 2. The subject actively makes the object disappear. Often implies a deliberate or suspicious removal rather than an accident.
常見錯誤
4. to secretly take a person away, often killing or locking them up for political r
強迫失蹤
政府或軍隊秘密抓走並殺害或監禁
to secretly take a person away, often killing or locking them up for political reasons, while refusing to say what happened to them
Argentina’s military junta disappeared thousands of political opponents during the Dirty War of the 1970s.
阿根廷軍政府在1970年代的骯髒戰爭期間強迫失蹤了數千名政治反對者。
transitive: disappear + person (political abduction)
Human rights groups say the police disappeared journalist Miriam Haddad in Cairo last month.
人權組織表示警方上個月在開羅強迫失蹤了記者Miriam Haddad。
Armed men in plain clothes disappeared three activists from the village square.
幾名便衣武裝男子從村莊廣場上強迫失蹤了三名社運人士。
The regime disappeared Svetlana’s husband from their flat in January and refused to give any information.
該政權在一月從Svetlana的公寓強迫失蹤了她的丈夫，並拒絕提供任何消息。
Witnesses said soldiers disappeared Olu and several students after the campus protest.
目擊者說軍人在校園抗議後強迫失蹤了Olu和幾名學生。
- abduct
broader term for any forceful taking of a person; lacks the political and secrecy dimension
- secretly detain
stresses the imprisonment aspect without necessarily implying killing
- make someone disappear
a less formal way to express the same idea
文法句型
be disappeared (by + state agent)
用法筆記
Object is always a person or group of people. The subject is almost always a state agent — police, military, or government. This sense is the active verb form behind the noun 'the disappeared' (see noun entry). Frequently used in the passive: 'he was disappeared by the secret police.'