- exodus (from…) (to…)
a situation in which many people leave a place at the same time (大批人同時)離開,外出,出去 the mass exodus from Paris to the country in the summer 夏日大批人離開巴黎到鄉村 The play was so awful that there was a general exodus from the theatre at the interval. 那劇十分糟糕,在幕間休息時觀衆紛紛離去。
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Greek exodos, from ex- ‘out of’ + hodos ‘way’.