missing• There's a screwmissing.• Even little boys have gone missing.• She was surprised, and not a little worried, to find Petion missing.• Some of the puzzle pieces are missing.• Suddenly he looked around and realized one of the children was missing.• The baby was born with a fingermissing.• Therapeutic studies on intestinal M avium complexinfection are missing and an effectivetherapy for cryptosporidiosis is not available at present.• When they returned to finish the work after a weekend break, they found parts of the postsmissing and broken.• Windowsmissing and doors off the hinges.• The first few minutes of the film were somehow missing, but he watched it through to the end.• The painting, which has been missing for almost half a century, only turned up when the owner of the house died.• She's been missing for three days now, and we're very worried.• Three buttons were missing from his shirt.• Police are 'very concerned' for the safety of a teenager who's been missing from home for three days.• Two pages were missing from my copy of the report.• Oh no! The last page is missing from the book!• A small sum of money went missing from the office last night.• A missing half wandered somewhere else, arriving much later.• One of my earrings is missing - have you seen it?• Can you spot the missing number in this series?• The man had reported his girlfriendmissing three days after she disappeared.
go missing• Then eight-year-old Sarah Payne went missing.• Security was tightened up at the embassy after a number of important fileswent missing.• It is hardly surprising that it is beginning to go missing.• Some of my aunt's jewellery has gone missing.• The alarm was raised when she went missing after Christmas celebrations.• Nineteen were killed and two went missing and are presumed dead.• Five hours later officersadmitted the £9,000 Bedford Astra had gone missing before they had checked it for fingerprints.• He's a strange man -- sometimes he goes missing for days and doesn't tell a soul.• Stock has been going missing from the stock room, and we're trying to find out who is responsible.• It's prettyodd, isn't it, one of Dora's clubsgoing missing like that.
report ... missing• Daytona Beach Police started searching for Seay on Dec. 23,1988, when she was reported missing.• No one reported the victim missing.• There were no reports of anyone missing.• We will report you missing and they will forget all about you after a while.• It is understood he was reported missing from a dependencyunit at South Cleveland hospital earlier in the day.• It is believed he had been reported missing from Winwick Hospital, Warrington, on Saturday.• Diversalert: A majorrescueoperation was launchedyesterday after two divers were reported missing off Redcar.• Kathleen Wade was reported missing on the morning of September 20,1986.
VERBS | ADVERB | PREPOSITION | PHRASESVERBS➤be失踪▸➤go下落不明◇a woman who went missing three months ago3 個月前失踪的女人➤discover sb發現某人失踪◇It was six hours before the seamen were discovered missing.6 小時後才發現水手們失踪了。➤list sb (as), report sb (as)把某人列入失踪者名單;報告某人失踪◇A leading businessman has been reported missing from his home.警方接到報告說一位商界要人從家中失踪。ADVERB➤completely, entirely, totally完全缺失◇The study of housework as work is a topic entirely missing from sociology.把家務勞動作為工作來研究是社會學中完全未觸及過的一個課題。➤altogether徹底缺失◇The eighth rung of the ladder was missing altogether.梯子的第八蹬橫木完全不見了。➤largely基本上缺失◇a quality that's largely missing in young people today如今的年輕人身上基本缺失的品質➤conspicuously, noticeably顯著/明顯缺失▸➤sadly因缺失而令人遺憾◇The spirit of fair play is sadly missing from the sport these days.如今的體育運動缺少公平競爭精神,令人遺憾。PREPOSITION➤from在⋯再也找不到◇The file was missing from its place.文件不在原來的地方了。PHRASES➤missing in action作戰失踪◇the search for US soldiers listed as missing in action對被列為在作戰中失踪的美國士兵的搜尋➤missing, presumed dead失踪,推定死亡