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词组 fugitive
释义 fugitive
 1. When the noun fugitive is followed by a preposition, the preposition is usually from:
      ... the character seems like a fugitive from a Molière comedy —Time, 20 Aug. 1951
      I stand before you today as a fugitive from a sweat shop —Adlai E. Stevenson, Speeches, ed. Richard Harrity, 1952
 2. In its specialized sense "likely to evaporate, deteriorate, or change," the adjective fugitive may be followed by to:
      ... good money value pigments are generally very fugitive to light —William von Fischer, ed., Paint and Varnish Technology, 1948
      In other senses, fugitive is occasionally used with from or in:
      ... poor Indians ... whose clothes were sometimes fugitive from better wardrobes —John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat, 1935
      ... colors were fixed in space and sounds were fugitive in time —Irving Babbitt, The New Laokoön, 1910
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