Shirk
[ʃɜːk]
解释:
(v. t.) To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.
(v. t.) To avoid; to escape; to neglect; -- implying unfaithfulness or fraud; as, to shirk duty.
(v. i.) To live by shifts and fraud; to shark.
(v. i.) To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away.
(n.) One who lives by shifts and tricks; one who avoids the performance of duty or labor.
黛比手打
同义词及近义词:
v. a. Avoid (in a mean way), evade, get off from.
手打:萨曼莎
解释:
v.t. to avoid get off or slink away from.—n. Shir′ker.—adj. Shir′ky.
克拉丽斯编辑
例句:
- Face to face with the Englishman, however, he did not shirk the combat, but, whirling his sword with a fierce cry, dashed boldly at his enemy. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Common men cannot shirk world politics and at the same time enjoy private freedom; but it has taken them countless generations to learn this. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- I am the Relieving Officer appointed by eternal ordinance to do my work; I am not held in estimation according as I shirk it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- For if a nation declares it has reached its majority by instituting self-government, then it cannot shirk responsibility. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Now, that's shirking. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- Then the sleepless Boots went shirking round from door to door, gathering up at each the Bluchers, Wellingtons, Oxonians, which stood outside. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- I would be a poor wife for an English lord were I to be responsible for his shirking a plain duty. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Shirking won't do for me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- They played no blind-man's buff; they dealt not in whist; they shirked not the irksome journal, for alas! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
整理:雷蒙德