elope: [17] Etymologically, elope signifies ‘leap away’. It was originally an Anglo-Norman legal term applied to a married woman running off with a lover, and only in the past couple of hundred years has it come to be applied to a couple leaving home to get married when parental permission is denied. It is thought that the Anglo-Norman term was an adaptation of Middle English *alopen, past participle of an unrecorded verb *alepen ‘run away’, which would have been formed from the prefix a- ‘away’ and lepen ‘run, leap’ (source of modern English leap and related to lope and German laufen ‘run’). => leap, lope
elope (v.)
1590s, "to run off," probably from Middle Dutch (ont)lopen "run away," from ont- "away from" (from Proto-Germanic *und- which also gave the first element in until) + lopen "to run," from Proto-Germanic *hlaupan (source also of Old English hleapan; see leap (v.)). Sense of "run away in defiance of parental authority to marry secretly" is 19c.
In support of this OED compares Old English uðleapan, "the technical word for the 'escaping' of a thief." However there is an Anglo-French aloper "run away from a husband with one's lover" (mid-14c.) which complicates this etymology; perhaps it is a modification of the Middle Dutch word, with Old French es-, or it is a compound of that and Middle English lepen "run, leap" (see leap (v.)).
The oldest Germanic word for "wedding" is represented by Old English brydlop (cognates: Old High German bruthlauft, Old Norse bruðhlaup), literally "bride run," the conducting of the woman to her new home. Related: Eloped; eloping.
elope 英文释义
1. run away secretly with one's beloved;
"The young couple eloped and got married in Las Vegas"
elope 双语例句
1. I want to leave the surface of earth, elope to the moon!
我要离开地球表面, 私奔到月球!
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2. Forgetting Dia at home, he planned for Hera to elope with him.
他忘记了家里的黛.他盘算着要让赫位与他一道私奔.
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3. However, Li Xin misunderstands that she will elope with Li L ü.
可是, 李信却误会她想与李律一起私奔.
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4. Will you elope in the name of love?
你会为爱而私奔 吗 ?
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5. Therefore, the two young people chose to elope.
于是, 两个年轻人选择了逃婚.
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elope 实用场景例句
My girlfriend Lynn and I eloped...
我和女友琳恩私奔了。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
In 1912 he eloped with Frieda von Richthofen.
1912年，他和弗丽达·冯·里希特霍芬私奔了。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
There is a thought in Niannian's heart that he wants to elope with Yanyan.
这个想的程度比较低,只是有一个想法而已.
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I want to leave the surface of earth, elope to the moon!
我要离开地球表面, 私奔到月球!
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Forgetting Dia at home, he planned for Hera to elope with him.
他忘记了家里的黛.他盘算着要让赫位与他一道私奔.
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Will you elope in the name of love?
你会为爱而私奔 吗 ?
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Unless we elope, they'll marry you off sooner or later to somebody else.
除非我们逃走, 他们总有一天要你去嫁给别人,可不是么?
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Therefore, the two young people chose to elope.
于是, 两个年轻人选择了逃婚.
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Oil heiress Joan is going to elope with bandleader Allen whom she ? s known four days.
有趣的冤家喜剧,由詹姆斯.卡格尼和贝特. 戴维斯这对奇妙的组合主演.
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Hao Mia against arranged marriages and lovers to elope , to an appointment to the forest.
郝米娅为了反对包办婚姻和情人私奔, 来到约定好的森林里.
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Gemini might spontaneously elope and then invite family and friendsgather together and celebrate later.
多变的双子座很有可能会在大婚前逃逸,晚些时候再邀请亲朋们补办喜宴.
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However, Li Xin misunderstands that she will elope with Li L ü.
