单词 | soft option |
释义 | > as lemmassoft option soft option n. a choice which entails no difficult or strenuous actions or decisions; an easy option; esp. one taken to avoid a more difficult alternative. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > [noun] > an act of choosing > a choice which is easy to make soft option1886 1886 New Englander & Harvard Rev. Apr. 363 The danger of pursuing a variety of heterogeneous studies without persistent method is by no means confined to the seekers after ‘soft options’. 1923 Granta 2 Mar. 315/1 It follows that our Tripos must be difficult; that we have little use for ‘duds’, for Tutors who misconceive it as being a soft option. 1957 M. K. Joseph I'll soldier no More (1958) xiii. 238 Odd bods from various HQs and soft-option types with vague jobs. 1977 Times 22 Apr. 18/8 The British electorate have a powerful instinct for the soft option and a quiet life. 2003 Jrnl. N.Z. Lit. 21 23 Who could blame the critic for taking the soft option and correcting the faulty grammar instead of engaging with the poems' substance? < as lemmas |
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