Dodge

[dɑdʒ]

[dɒdʒ] or [dɑdʒ]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a quick evasive movement.

(noun.) a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery.

(verb.) make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid; 'The child dodged the teacher's blow'.

(verb.) move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course; 'the pickpocket dodged through the crowd'.

錄入:莱尔--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. i.) To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start.

(v. i.) To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble.

(v. t.) To evade by a sudden shift of place; to escape by starting aside; as, to dodge a blow aimed or a ball thrown.

(v. t.) Fig.: To evade by craft; as, to dodge a question; to dodge responsibility.

(v. t.) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.

(n.) The act of evading by some skillful movement; a sudden starting aside; hence, an artful device to evade, deceive, or cheat; a cunning trick; an artifice.

安迪編輯

同義詞及近義詞：

v. n. [1]. Start aside, shift place suddenly.[2]. Shuffle, equivocate, quibble, prevaricate, use artifice, play fast and loose, be evasive.

v. a. Evade (by starting aside).

n. [1]. Starting aside.[2]. Evasion, artifice, trick, subterfuge, quibble, cavil.

卡莱尔編輯

同義詞及反義詞：

[See ARTIFICE]

編輯:兰尼

解釋/意思:

v.i. to start aside or shift about: to evade or use mean tricks: to shuffle or quibble.—v.t. to evade by a sudden shift of place: to trick.—n. an evasion: a trick: a quibble.—ns. Dodg′er; Dodg′ery trickery.—adj. Dodg′y.

校對:威拉德