| 单词 | dodge |
| 释义 | dodge I. intransitive verb 1. a. obsolete b. < she dodged again, she lied again, and felt no guilt — Ethel Wilson > c. < he never dodges, never seeks refuge in platitudinous generalities — Saturday Review > d. < had to dodge backward and forward between London, Scotland, and Ireland — Times Literary Supplement > < dodging in and out among the crowd > < dodged in long zigzag leaps > often < he dodged behind the door > 2. transitive verb 1. < that's dodging the question > < the fact that these deficiencies exist ought not to be dodged — Dexter Perkins > < those young men who dodge the draft > 2. < dodging a hail of bullets > : avoid an encounter with (as by suddenly turning aside) < she dodged him in the crowd > 3. archaic 4. Synonyms: < I looked up just in time to dodge a window frame falling from a fourth-story apartment — T.P.Whitney > < the trouble has often been diagnosed, but it is always being dodged or minimized by the moralist — E.M.Forster > < he hides in a dream world, dodging all responsibility — Ruth Blodgett > parry implies a warding off (as of a blow) as by turning the object aside, extending commonly to any adroitness in defending oneself < the Modoc bands parried thrust after thrust of the Federal troops — American Guide Series: Oregon > < a new species of general, to parry a kind of enemy that was not described in the textbooks — Time > < developing some adroitness in parrying awkward questions from the press — Edmond Taylor > sidestep implies a refusal to face by suddenly or ingeniously moving out of the way (as of something that threatens) < a man who sidesteps difficulties by quick thinking — Hazel Sullivan > < Thomas sidestepped the snare which besets the prose playwright — Kenneth Tynan > < he realized that every single speaker, with two courageous exceptions, had sidestepped the issue — H.A.Overstreet > duck, close to sidestep, implies avoidance or evasion by or as if by bobbing down the head or suddenly stooping out of the way, suggesting possibly more purposeful evasion than sidestep < the way for a reviewer to duck such a question — Newsweek > < on the whole the major studios have ducked controversy, seldom fighting censorship — Saturday Night > < certainly some ministers and teachers have ducked the facts of life — McGeorge Bundy > shirk implies evasion by means that suggest laziness, cowardice, or sneakiness < that is my duty and I shall not shirk it — H.S.Truman > < a war which must be fought out and not shirked — Walter Moberly > < the critic cannot forgo the attempt nor shirk the responsibility — C.I.Glicksberg > < does not shirk the horrors of his scene — W.E.Allen > fence, usually figurative, in this context suggests any dexterous purposeful maneuver to avoid an issue or to ward something off (as embarrassing questions) < spent much time in fencing on the witness stand > < it is rather odd that, after successfully fencing with the police, prosecutors, and other officials for weeks, she should have made a slip and mentioned Halloran's name — E.D.Radin > < the president showed a new capability for fencing with the press — Time > malinger implies a shirking or delaying by pretense of illness, weakness, or incapacity < a malingering old colonel … pleading dysentery — Time > < malingering was rare, however, if we adhere to the definition that it is an act or behavior in an otherwise normal individual for the purpose of evading military duty — W.C.Menninger > < tried to escape it for more than ten juvenile years of my life, often successfully by playing truant day after day, or by malingering — F.N.Souza > II. 1. 2. a. < he made a sudden dodge aside as the door swung to > b. < the suprising dodges used to escape taxation > < just another dodge to get out of working > c. < through the dodges and changes of Latin America's most dangerously significant revolution — Duncan Aikman > < penny-pinching dodges > often < if you think the jingle dodge is easy — H.D.Quigg > < got into the cowboy dodge because it looked more promising than cotton picking — Martin Levin > < making use of a new market dodge to increase unit sales > 3. Synonyms: see trick • - on the dodge III. or dodge the bullet • - dodge a bullet |
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