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ADV-INDEF-NEG
任何地方都不;没有别的地方会
You use nowhere to emphasize that a place has more of a particular quality than any other places, or that it is the only place where something happens or exists.
例句
Nowhere is language a more serious issue than in Hawaii...
没有哪个地方像夏威夷那样，语言成了如此重要的问题。
This kind of forest exists nowhere else in the world...
在世界其他地方找不到这样的森林。
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ADV-INDEF-NEG
没有任何地方;无处
You use nowhere when making negative statements to say that a suitable place of the specified kind does not exist.
例句
There was nowhere to hide and nowhere to run...
无处可藏，也无处可逃。
I have nowhere else to go, nowhere in the world...
我没有其他地方可去，在这个世界上没有任何地方。
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ADV
没有踪影;找不到
You use nowhere to indicate that something or someone cannot be seen or found.
例句
Michael glanced anxiously down the corridor, but Wilfred was nowhere to be seen...
迈克尔焦急地顺着走廊望去，可根本看不到威尔弗雷德的影儿。
The escaped prisoner was nowhere in sight...
越狱的囚犯已经无影无踪了。
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ADV
在不重要的地方;在无趣之处
You can use nowhere to refer in a general way to small, unimportant, or uninteresting places.
例句
...endless paths that led nowhere in particular.
不知通往何处的没有尽头的小路
...country roads that go from nowhere to nowhere.
不知从哪里来也不知通向何方的乡间公路
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ADV
突然(发生);一下子(冒出来)
If you say that something or someone appears from nowhere or out of nowhere, you mean that they appear suddenly and unexpectedly.
例句
A car came from nowhere, and I had to jump back into the hedge just in time...
一辆轿车不知从什么地方突然冒了出来，我只得向后跳到树篱中躲避，险些躲不及。
Houses had sprung up out of nowhere on the hills.
山丘上突然冒出一幢幢的房子。
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ADV
(文字、言谈或争论中)找不到出处地
You use nowhere to mean not in any part of a text, speech, or argument.
例句
He nowhere offers concrete historical background to support his arguments...
他没给出具体的历史背景来支撑他的论点。
Point taken, but nowhere did we suggest that this yacht's features were unique...
你说得对，但我们压根没讲过这艘游艇的特色是独一无二的。
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PHRASE
在遥远偏僻处
If you say that a place is in the middle of nowhere, you mean that it is a long way from other places.
例句
At dusk we pitched camp in the middle of nowhere.
黄昏时，我们在茫?；囊爸性?。
...a farmhouse in the middle of nowhere.
遥远偏僻处的一所农舍
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PHRASE
(使)毫无结果;(使)一无进展
If you say that you are getting nowhere, or getting nowhere fast, or that something is getting you nowhere, you mean that you are not achieving anything or having any success.
例句
My mind won't stop going round and round on the same subject and I seem to be getting nowhere...
我脑子一直在不停地围绕着同一个问题转啊转，但一无所获。
'Getting nowhere fast,' pronounced Crosby, 'that's what we're doing.'...
克罗斯比断言说：“我们一无所获，在做无用功。”
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PHRASE
远非;远不及
If you use nowhere near in front of a word or expression, you are emphasizing that the real situation is very different from, or has not yet reached, the state which that word or expression suggests.
例句
He's nowhere near recovered yet from his experiences...
他还远没有从自己的经历中走出来。
The chair he sat in was nowhere near as comfortable as the custom-designed one behind his desk.
他坐的那把椅子远不如他书桌后面那把定做的舒服。