1LOSE/CAN'T FINDPLACEnot in any place or to any place 什么地方都不,无处
nowhere to go/live/sit etc
I have no job and nowhere to live.
我没有工作,也没有地方住。
Nowhere is drug abuse more of a problem than in the US.
没有什么地方的吸毒问题比美国更严重。
2get/go nowhereFAILPROGRESSto have no success or make no progress 没有结果;没有进展
The proposal went nowhere in the Senate.
该提议在参议院毫无结果。
get nowhere with somebody/something
He was getting nowhere with the Bentley case.
他在本特利案件上没有获得任何进展。
get somebody nowhere
A negative attitude will get you nowhere.
消极的态度会让你一无所成。
I soon realized that being tough was getting me nowhere fast (=was not helping me achieve anything).
我很快就意识到态度强硬只会一无所获。
Examples from the Corpus
get/go nowhere• Flo has been looking for a job but has gotten nowhere.• But it's like digging in treacle - you get nowhere.• I submit those stats and I get nowhere.• Louis Cardinals out in Bloomington, and getting nowhere.• Indeed, the tradingprofitwent nowhere in 2000.• He goes nowhere in public without enough jewelry to supply a cotillion.• I ain't going nowherenear them.• He's got nowhere to go but forward.• Still, the Raiders will go nowhere until they begin following the rules.
3be nowhere to be seen/found (also be nowhere in sight) to not be in a place, or not be seen or found there 哪儿也见不到/找不到
Typical – another street crime and the police are nowhere to be seen.
总是这样,又一宗街头罪案,而警察却不见踪影。
Examples from the Corpus
be nowhere to be seen/found• She'd looked everywhere for her glasses, but they were nowhere to be found.• Amelia Otis's name is nowhere to be found.• But David Kent was nowhere to be seen.• He had been searching for Morthen, to protect her from his violenthalf-brother, but she was nowhere to be found.• I patrolled the town for a while, but they were nowhere to be seen.• The prisondirector ordered a search, but the prisoner was nowhere to be found.• When a game was on the line, Carr was nowhere to be found.• Willie had looked around for the twins and George, but they were nowhere to be seen.• Our tourguide was nowhere to be seen, so we set off to explore the city alone.
4nowhere near
a)FARa long way from a particular place 离〔某地方〕很远
He swore he was nowhere near her house on the night she died.
5out of/from nowhereSUDDENLYhappening or appearing suddenly and without warning 突然发生;突然出现
In the last few seconds, Gunnell came from nowhere to win another gold medal.
在最后几秒钟里,甘内尔突然发力,又赢得了一枚金牌。
From out of nowhere he asks me to marry him!
他竟突然间向我求婚!
Examples from the Corpus
out of/from nowhere• Gilbert reappeared, sans Bob, but accompanied by Kevin who had materializedout of nowhere.• Husbands would wander; a car would appear out of nowhere.• While Paul's dilemma came out of nowhere.• Anyway, Jimmy had phoned me a few weeks earlier out of nowhere and asked if I could do him a favor.• I got to be careful - cars just suddenly come out from nowhere and it's easy to have an accident.• She saw it flyout from nowhere, its wingsflashing black, then white.• Giant amphipods, the size of rats, appear out of nowhere to nibble on the remains.
5GRAMMAR 语法
Do not use nowhere with another negative word (eg ‘not’). Use anywhere . 如果有其他否定词(如not),不要用nowhere,而要用anywhere
You can’t smoke anywhere ( NOT 不说 can’t smoke nowhere ) in the building.
这大楼里任何地方都不能吸烟。
nGRAMMAR: Negatives
Don’t use nowhere with another negative word such as ‘not’. Use anywhere. You say:
You must not smoke anywhere in the building.
✗Don’t say: You must not smoke nowhere in the building.
Examples from the Corpus
nowhere• It's laidwaste to nowhere.• Louis Cardinals out in Bloomington, and getting nowhere.• The image will seem to magically appear on screen from nowhere.• When the coldhit, there was nowhere for them to go.• And that's the worst, not having a job, nowhere to go and nowhere to live.• And we had nowhere to go if we had been foundunworthy.• There was no respite from them, nowhere to hide from them.• Since 1988, the number of applications from people who say they have nowhere to live has soared from 160 to 629.• Giant amphipods, the size of rats, appear out of nowhere to nibble on the remains.
nowhere to go/live/sit etc• Dotwaited and waited in the long browncorridor with nowhere to sit.• Far more numerous are those with nothing to do, with nowhere to go.• They did not move because there was nowhere to go.• And that's the worst, not having a job, nowhere to go and nowhere to live.• Since 1988, the number of applications from people who say they have nowhere to live has soared from 160 to 629.• And we had nowhere to go if we had been found unworthy.• We had nowhere to go, nothing to do, all our plans were suspended.