Evasion
[ɪ'veɪʒ(ə)n] or [ɪ'veʒn]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver.
(noun.) nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do; 'his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible'; 'that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive'.
(noun.) the deliberate act of failing to pay money; 'his evasion of all his creditors'; 'he was indicted for nonpayment'.
(noun.) a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth.
錄入:佩内洛普--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.
編輯:凯利
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Shift, subterfuge, equivocation, prevarication, quibble, tergiversation, shuffling, sophistical excuse, disingenuous escape.
埃罗尔校對
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Prevarication, shuffle, fencing, sheet, subterfuge, quibble, equivocation
ANT:Answer, counterargument, grappling
卡洛斯錄入
解釋/意思:
n. act of evading or eluding: an attempt to escape the force of an argument or accusation: an excuse.—adjs. Evā′sible capable of being evaded; Evā′sive that evades or seeks to evade: not straightforward: shuffling.—adv. Evā′sively.—n. Evā′siveness.
整理:贾丝廷
例句/造句/用法:
- In trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Briggs replied, with meek evasion. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- That there article of clothing likeways belonged to, and was wore by--him as I have made mention on,' was again the dull Old Bailey evasion. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- This struck her as a clumsy evasion, and the thought gave a flash of keenness to her answer. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Any one might have seen in her haggard face that there was no suppression or evasion so far. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Divided interest and evasion destroy it. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- I have been shutting myself up and resting, said Will, feeling himself a sneak, but seeing no alternative to this evasion. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- He has to pick his way between cowardly evasion on the one hand, and partisanship on the other. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I scorn your shifty evasions, and I scorn you,' said the schoolmaster. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- There would have been either the ostentation of a coxcomb, or the evasions of a mind too weak to defend its own vanities. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- It was full of odd, fantastic expression, of double meanings, of evasions, of suggestive vagueness. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- No more evasions. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Necessity, however, always forced him to submit at last, though frequently not till after many delays, evasions, and affected excuses. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I fancy, even already, that unavailing attendance on delays and evasions has made you something less elastic than you used to be. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
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