| 词汇 | fudge |
| 释义 | fudge noun uk /fʌdʒ/ us /fʌdʒ/ fudgenoun (SWEET/CANDY)[ U ] a soft sweet made from sugar, butter, and milk乳脂软糖 Westend61/GettyImages Sweets almond paste baking chocolate barley sugar bitter chocolate bittersweet chocolate confectioner confectionery cooking chocolate cotton candy couverture liquorice lollipop lolly marchpane marron glacé snow cone sourball spun sugar stick of rock sugared almond fudgenoun (AVOID)[ Cusually singular ]UK a plan or action that avoids making a clear decision or giving a clear answer: 含糊其辞（避免作出明确确定或给出明确答案） She suspects that this compromise deal will be nothing more than a fudge.她怀疑这种折中的协议只不过是在敷衍而已。 It's a bit of a fudge but we could put the cost through on next year's budget.虽然有点儿蒙混嫌疑，我们还是可以把花销转入明年的预算中。 Avoiding action abrogate abrogation avoid avoid something like the plagueidiom avoidance elude end-run eschew evader evasion fiddle insure shirk short circuit shrink from something shy away from something sit on your arseidiom steer welch Welsh fudge verb[ T ] uk /fʌdʒ/ us /fʌdʒ/ to avoid making a decision or giving a clear answer about something: 回避；搪塞；敷衍；含糊其辞 fudge the issueThe government continues to fudge the issue by refusing to give exact figures.政府一直回避这一问题，拒绝给出准确的数据。 Avoiding action abrogate abrogation avoid avoid something like the plagueidiom avoidance elude end-run eschew evader evasion fiddle insure shirk short circuit shrink from something shy away from something sit on your arseidiom steer welch Welsh fudge | American Dictionaryfudge noun[ U ] us/fʌdʒ/ fudgenoun[U] (CANDY)a soft, creamy candy made from sugar, milk, butter, and chocolate or other flavoring fudge verb[ I/T ] us/fʌdʒ/ fudgeverb[I/T] (CHEAT)to cheat about something slightly, esp. by not reporting facts accurately or not telling the exact truth: [ T ]I think the company fudged the figures to make their losses look less than they were. Examples of fudgefudge The separation between the two dimensions was repeatedly fudged. Unfortunately, some current statistics provide suggestive evidence that fudging in the application of current standards is occurring. While this may be understandable, such a fudge is unlikely, in the medium to long term, to mollify the insurance industry. This can often result in messy compromises and undesirable fudges in relation to key areas of national policy. What are the rules by which the designers translate and fudge the shape rules to produce highly plausible architectural models and drawings? This issue has been much fudged in recent years. These are not decisions that it is possible to fudge. But such eclecticism seems to fudge the gap between law's moral permissibility and its obligatory force. I ate a piece of chocolate fudge. The government could admit that 'commissioning' is a fudge, with service planning and 'purchasing' merged to the detriment of the former, and institute effective service planning. It bears all the characteristics of a good old-fashioned fudge. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is rigorous in its analysis and it fudges no issues. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Because it fudges the issue so much, it makes people seek an easy way out. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not think that we should fudge the issue of paying people at the top the appropriate salaries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 My view is on the record and there is no attempt to fudge the issue. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of fudge These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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