nowhere to be found

nowhere to be found — 慣用語

1. missing and not able to be located, no matter how hard people look for it.

1.慣用語B2
釋義

遍尋不著

怎麼找都找不到、不見蹤影

missing and not able to be located, no matter how hard people look for it.

例句

When the bell rang, Imani's homework was nowhere to be found in her bag.

鈴聲響起時，Imani 的作業在書包裡遍尋不著。

subject + be + nowhere to be found

The front door keys were nowhere to be found, so the family waited outside.

前門的鑰匙遍尋不著，所以一家人只好在外面等。

inanimate subject in passive-like state

同義詞
  • missing

    plainer and more general; can describe anything absent

  • lost

    focuses on the thing no longer in its place, not on the search

反義詞
  • right here

    informal, signals the thing is easily present

文法句型

[subject] + be + nowhere to be found

用法筆記

Subject is the thing or person that has gone missing, not the person searching. Almost always follows 'be' (was/were/is/are nowhere to be found).

常見錯誤

I am nowhere to find my phone.
My phone is nowhere to be found.
the missing thing is the subject, and the phrase uses the passive 'to be found'.