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'.
校對:罗伯特--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.
錄入:莫伊拉
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.
博妮塔校對
同義詞及反義詞:
[See ARTIFICE]
整理:雪麗
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.
达米安校對
例句/造句/用法:
- Pneumatic Transmission: Dodge's Air Blast Conveyor. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Reg'lar do, sir; artful dodge. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- He loves a dodge for its own sake; being,' added Mr Fledgeby, after casting about for an expressive phrase, 'the dodgerest of all the dodgers. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- They'll go lovering around the house, and we shall have to dodge. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- What am I to dodge her for? 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- That is another dodge by which we pretend that we were always wise and just, though a trifle sleepy. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Dodge, an exceedingly efficient officer, having been badly wounded, had to leave the army about the first of October. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- He, dodging with his hat in his hand, had not heard. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- After dodging me for all these weeks and forcing me to climb the roof here like a tom cat and to come to see you as a doctor? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- But, by gad, that ain't playing fair: that's dodging the rules of the game. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- If it were not for Fanny, who knows we are here, I should find pleasure in dodging and eluding him. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- It was like a great presence, watching her, dodging her. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Why, I spend half my life now, pretty well, loitering and dodging about his door. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- There was no dodging that arrangement. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- And how should I be able to answer, dodged in that way, in a strange place, on an empty stomach! 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- But the disagreeable ordeal could not be dodged. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Here, he dodged backwards and forwards, and did all sorts of things while I looked helplessly at him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Well, I reckon, was the reply of the other, as he dodged, with some alarm, the threatening honor. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- So we dodged--we were used to that by this time--and when the scouts reached the spot we had so lately occupied, we were absent. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- He's made of dodges. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- He dodges about in his boat, does this man, till he gets chilled. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Shirley, in spite of her whims and oddities, her dodges and delays, has an infatuated fondness for him. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- But these may be only lawyer's dodges. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Yet this does not always happen; a person trained to dodge a threatening blow, dodges automatically with no corresponding thought or emotion. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Printing is the most obvious of dodges. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- One of his dodges,' said Mr Fledgeby, with a cool and contemptuous shrug. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
整理:华莱士