题目内容：

Over 240,000 people were killed and many were declared missing in the Tangshan earthquake.
为什么不用missed 不是过去发生的吗?

优质解答

missing在这里的意思是失踪的,失踪了,可以把它当作一个形容词,英语中有很多形容词化了的分词,miss与people是主动关系,所以要用现在分词表状态或者结果.