flee: [OE] Flee, like its close relatives German fliehe, Dutch vlieden, and Swedish and Danish fly, comes from a prehistoric Germanic *thleukhan, a word of unknown origin. In Old English, flee and fly had the same past tense and past participle (and indeed the same derivatives, represented in modern English by flight), and this, together with a certain similarity in meaning, has led to the two verbs being associated and often confused, but there is no reliable evidence that they are etymologically connected.
flee (v.)
Old English fleon, flion "take flight, fly from, avoid, escape" (contracted class II strong verb; past tense fleah, past participle flogen), from Proto-Germanic *fleuhan "to run away" (cognates: Old High German fliohan, Old Norse fl?ja, Old Frisian flia, Dutch vlieden, German fliehen, Gothic tliuhan "to flee"), probably from PIE *pleuk-, extended form of root *pleu- "to flow" (see pluvial). Also compare fly (v.2).
Weak past tense and past participle fled emerged in Middle English under influence of Scandinavian. Old English had a transitive form, geflieman "put to flight, banish, drive away," which came in handy in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Related: fled; Fleeing.
例文
1. A trickle of refugees began to flee the country.
難民は三々五々この国を脱出し始めた。
2.Later,he suffered the indignity of having to flee angry protesters.
後に、彼は怒りの抗議者を不名誉に避けて逃げざるを得なくなった。
3.For an instant,Catherine was tempted to flee .
しばらくして、キャサリンは逃げようとした。
4.Many refugees have been forced to flee their homeland.
多くの難民が祖国から脱出を余儀なくされた。
5.Why does she always flee any kind of responsibility？