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пропал без вести (to become lost or disappear Example Sentences Including 'go missing' ASTON VILLA 1 MANCHESTER CITY 0. Keegan rap as his stars go missing. SUN, NEWS OF THE WORLD (2002) Brian said it was unlikely they would go missing if they had a compass, and with the maps he had drawn. Sillitoe, Alan THE OPEN DOOR But who, other than a drop-out, could go missing without someone trying to trace him? Ashford, Jeffrey A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE Caroline is the 10th young British backpacker to be murdered or go missing in northern Australia in the past four years. TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES (2002) Martinkus regularly checked in with the Time office in Baghdad to ensure the alarm was raised should he go missing. THE AUSTRALIAN (2004) Perhaps, says Bond, but this weakness raises serious issues of liability when money does go missing from an account. NEW SCIENTIST (2003) They might ` go missing " or have slight accidents or illnesses. Hearne, Dr Keith VISIONS OF THE FUTURE – AN INVESTIGATION OF PREMONITIONS When photos of Sam go missing and precious videotapes of him are wiped, she can't make sense of what is happening. THE ADVERTISER, SUNDAY MAIL (2004). Collins Alexander Demidov); бесследно пропавший (Ivan Pisarev) |
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пропавший без вести (go missing (= to disappear, become lost) is a Britishism that has encountered an odd mix of resistance and acceptance in AmE. Still, it seems to be on an irreversible ascent–e.g.: "In Fort Worth last June, bronze memory urns disappeared from graveyards. The following month, at a high school football field in Washington, D.C., 750 pounds of aluminum bleachers went missing." Telis Demos, "The Dark Side of Metal Madness," Forbes, 9 July 2007, at 32. The phrase, now recorded in W11 and NOAD, chafes many Americans. Some object to the notion of voluntariness that go suggests (did the bleachers in the example above run away and hide?). They incorrectly assume that the idiom suggests voluntary absence and should therefore be restricted to uses such as desertion or going AWOL. Others believe it to be ungrammatical. But many usage pros defend it. Although the phrase has been traced to the late 19th century, it spread primarily in World War II with reports of British air and sea missions when planes or ships didn't return. It began its spike in AmE usage in the mid-1990s, especially in missing-persons reports. GMAU Alexander Demidov) |
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отсутствовать (где-либо: Schreiber recounted a strange story about Nobel Prize winner Kary Mullis, inventor of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method. Mullis claimed to have had a bizarre experience the same year he invented PCR. One night as he was going to his outhouse he was confronted by a glowing English-speaking raccoon that abducted him into a spaceship, Schreiber explained, adding Mullis went missing for four hours. -- отсутствовал четыре часа  coasttocoastam.com ART Vancouver) |
