詞彙精選：evaporate的用法和辨析

一、詳細釋義：

v.

（使）蒸發；（使）脫水；（使）消失 [I,T]

例句：

If you heat the water, it will evaporate.

你要是把水加熱，水會蒸發的。

例句：

He was afraid his savings would evaporate overnight.

他擔心他的儲蓄隔夜就蒸發了。

二、詞義辨析：

vanish,disappear,fade,evaporate

這些動詞均有“消失”之意。vanish語氣強，指完全、往往是神祕而突然的消失，不留任何蛛絲馬跡。disappear普通用詞，強調從視線或腦海中消失。這消失可能是暫時的、突然的或永久的，視上下文而定。 fade側重逐漸消失。evaporate指像水蒸發時那樣悄然逝去，也指某人悄悄地、突然退出或離去。

三、參考例句：

He was afraid his savings would evaporate overnight.

他擔心他的儲蓄隔夜就蒸發了。

Further processes evaporate water and remove things like mercury.

進一步的流程則蒸發水分，去除諸如汞等物質。

If you heat the water, it will evaporate.

你要是把水加熱，水會蒸發的。

Hopes of reaching an agreement are beginning to evaporate.

達成協議的希望開始破滅｡

Some of the compounds in the oil evaporate, reducing their impact on the environment.

石油中的一些化合物蒸發以後能夠降低對環境的影響。

If meteoric water does not evaporate or run overland, it may seep directly into the ground.

如果降水不從陸地蒸發或流走的話，就會直接滲入地下。

Wet pavements soon dry when there is wind or sunshine to evaporate the water.

當風或陽光把水蒸發掉的時候，潮溼的人行道很快就幹了。

Liquid water cannot exist on the surface because the thin atmosphere will cause melting ice to evaporate directly into water vapour.

液體的水不可能存在於表面上，因爲稀薄的空氣將融化着的冰直接蒸發成爲水蒸氣。

For the sweat to really cool you off, it needs to evaporate -- if it just dampens your clothes or drips off, it won't do you any favors.

發汗的時候爲了讓你涼下來，汗液需要蒸發——如果只是讓你的衣服變潮，或者滴下來的話，實際上是不起任何作用的。