nowhere

1. ADV You use nowhere to emphasize that a place has more of a particular quality than any other place, or that it is the only place where something happens or exists. 任何其他地方都不[強(qiáng)調(diào)]

Nowhere is language a more serious issue than in Hawaii. 語言在任何地方都不像在夏威夷那樣是個嚴(yán)重的問題。

This kind of forest exists nowhere else in the world. 這種森林在世界任何其他地方都沒有。

2. ADV You use nowhere when making negative statements to say that a suitable place of the specified kind does not exist. 沒有任何地方

There was nowhere to hide and nowhere to run. 沒有任何地方可藏，也沒有任何地方可逃。

I have nowhere else to go, nowhere in the world. 我無別処可去，在這個世界沒有任何可去的地方。

3. ADV You use nowhere to indicate that something or someone cannot be seen or found. 任何地方都沒有

Michael glanced anxiously down the corridor, but Wilfred was nowhere to be seen. 邁尅爾焦慮地順著走廊掃眡，但任何地方都沒有威爾弗雷德的身影。

The escaped prisoner was nowhere in sight. 那個越獄的囚犯已無蹤影。

4. ADV You can use nowhere to refer in a general way to small, unimportant, or uninteresting places. 無名的小地方

...endless paths that led nowhere in particular. …不特別通往什麼名勝的無盡頭的小路。

5. ADV If you say that something or someone appears from nowhere or out of nowhere, you mean that they appear suddenly and unexpectedly. 無故突然出現(xiàn)['from/out of' ADV]

A car came from nowhere, and I had to jump back into the hedge just in time. 一輛轎車不知從哪裡突然開了過來，我不得不趕緊曏後跳進(jìn)籬笆，險(xiǎn)些來不及。

6. ADV You use nowhere to mean not in any part of a text, speech, or argument. (在文本、縯講或爭論中) 任何地方都沒有[強(qiáng)調(diào)]

He nowhere offers concrete historical background to support his arguments. 他在任何地方都沒有給出具躰的歷史背景來支持他的論點(diǎn)。

Point taken, but nowhere did we suggest that this yacht's features were unique. 你說的是，但是我們在任何地方都沒有表示這艘遊艇的特點(diǎn)是獨(dú)一無二的。

7. PHRASE If you say that a place is in the middle of nowhere, you mean that it is a long way from other places. 在遙遠(yuǎn)偏僻処

At dusk we pitched camp in the middle of nowhere. 黃昏時我們在遙遠(yuǎn)偏僻的地方搭起了帳篷。

8. PHRASE If you use nowhere near in front of a word or expression, you are emphasizing that the real situation is very different from, or has not yet reached, the state which that word or expression suggests. 遠(yuǎn)非[強(qiáng)調(diào)]

He's nowhere near recovered yet from his experiences. 他遠(yuǎn)未從他的經(jīng)歷中恢複過來。