词汇精选：evaporate的用法和辨析

一、详细释义：

v.

（使）蒸发；（使）脱水；（使）消失 [I,T]

例句：

If you heat the water, it will evaporate.

你要是把水加热，水会蒸发的。

例句：

He was afraid his savings would evaporate overnight.

他担心他的储蓄隔夜就蒸发了。

二、词义辨析：

vanish,disappear,fade,evaporate

这些动词均有“消失”之意。vanish语气强，指完全、往往是神秘而突然的消失，不留任何蛛丝马迹。disappear普通用词，强调从视线或脑海中消失。这消失可能是暂时的、突然的或永久的，视上下文而定。 fade侧重逐渐消失。evaporate指像水蒸发时那样悄然逝去，也指某人悄悄地、突然退出或离去。

三、参考例句：

He was afraid his savings would evaporate overnight.

他担心他的储蓄隔夜就蒸发了。

Further processes evaporate water and remove things like mercury.

进一步的流程则蒸发水分，去除诸如汞等物质。

If you heat the water, it will evaporate.

你要是把水加热，水会蒸发的。

Hopes of reaching an agreement are beginning to evaporate.

达成协议的希望开始破灭｡

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

石油中的一些化合物蒸发以后能够降低对环境的影响。

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

如果降水不从陆地蒸发或流走的话，就会直接渗入地下。

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

当风或阳光把水蒸发掉的时候，潮湿的人行道很快就干了。

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

液体的水不可能存在于表面上，因为稀薄的空气将融化着的冰直接蒸发成为水蒸气。

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.

发汗的时候为了让你凉下来，汗液需要蒸发——如果只是让你的衣服变潮，或者滴下来的话，实际上是不起任何作用的。