Shirk
[ʃɜːk]
解釋/意思:
(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
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. Avoid (in a mean way), evade, get off from.
手打:萨曼莎
解釋/意思:
v.t. to avoid get off or slink away from.—n. Shir′ker.—adj. Shir′ky.
克拉丽斯編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- 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. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- 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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I am the Relieving Officer appointed by eternal ordinance to do my work; I am not held in estimation according as I shirk it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- For if a nation declares it has reached its majority by instituting self-government, then it cannot shirk responsibility. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Now, that's shirking. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- 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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I would be a poor wife for an English lord were I to be responsible for his shirking a plain duty. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Shirking won't do for me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- They played no blind-man's buff; they dealt not in whist; they shirked not the irksome journal, for alas! 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
整理:雷蒙德