depart
verb (rather formal)Verb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they depart | |
| he / she / it departs | |
| past simple departed | |
| past participle departed | |
| -ing form departing |
- [intransitive, transitive]
to leave a place, especially to start a trip 离开；离去；起程；出发 - depart (for…) (from…)
Flights for Rome depart from Terminal 3. 飞往罗马的班机从 3 号航站楼出发。 She waited until the last of the guests had departed. 她一直等到最后一位客人离开。 - depart something (North American English)
The train departed Amritsar at 6.15 p.m. 火车在下午 6 点 15 分离开了阿姆利则。
Extra ExamplesHe departs for New York tomorrow morning. 他明天早晨出发去纽约。 The plane was scheduled to depart at 8.30. 飞机定于8:30起飞。 The plane was scheduled to depart later that day. 飞机定于那天晚些时候起飞。 They shook hands all round and prepared to depart. 他们与大家一一握手准备离开。 We depart from Heathrow at ten o'clock tonight. 我们今晚 10 点从希思罗机场启程。 Most of the tourists had departed the area. 大多数游客已经离开了这个地区。 This train will depart in three minutes. 这列火车将在三分钟后离开。 You must depart for England immediately. 你必须立即起程去英格兰。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + depart- be due to
- be scheduled to
- be waiting to
- …
- for
- from
- depart (for…) (from…)
- [intransitive, transitive] (North American English)
to leave your job 离职 Extra ExamplesHe departed the troubled firm after less than a year in the post. 在任不到一年他就离开了这家混乱不堪的公司。 Giving a large pay-off to a departing executive may be seen as rewarding failure. 付给即将离任的高管高额遣散费可能被视为奖励失败。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + depart- be due to
- be scheduled to
- be waiting to
- …
- for
- from
see also departure
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French departir, based on Latin dispertire ‘to divide’. The original sense was ‘separate’, also ‘take leave of each other’, hence ‘go away’.
Idioms
depart this life
to die. People say ‘depart this life’ to avoid saying ‘die’. 离开人世，去世，亡故（委婉说法，与 die 同义）