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

• 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。
• 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。
• Some parishes have mandatory evacuations, and some have had voluntary evacuations.
  一些教堂是接到命令进行撤离，另外一些是自愿撤离。
• If the piping systems are extensive or complicated, successive evacuations broken first by an inert gas and finally with hydrogen are most reliable.
  如果管道系统范围宽或很复杂，先用惰性气体连续排气，最后用氢是最可靠的。
• 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。
• Even though it was a controlled explosion, it still caused evacuations, set roofs on fire and broke some windows in downtown Munich.
  尽管这是一次控制爆破，还是造成人员撤离，屋顶起火并且震碎了慕尼黑市中心的一些窗户。
• Arvind Kumar, an officer on special duty for disaster management who was posted to the city of Visakhapatnam for the storm, said that evacuations were taking place against the will of many residents, some of whom preferred to brave the storm and stay in their homes.
  被派到维沙卡帕特南执行灾难管理特别任务的官员阿尔温德·库马尔（ArvindKumar）表示，疏散举措违背了很多居民的意愿，其中一些人宁愿勇敢面对风暴，留在家中。
• 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。”
• 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。
• 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。