词汇 | fudging |
释义 | fudging present participle offudge 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 evade evader evasion fiddle insure run for the hillsidiom shirk short circuit shrink from something shy away from something steer welch Examples of fudgingfudging In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Unfortunately, some current statistics provide suggestive evidence that fudging in the application of current standards is occurring. With enough fudging, and enough ignoring of inherencies in one's basic material, anything can be transformed into anything else. Allow ' 'fudging' ' the numbers by which a country's economic performance is evaluated so that when facing difficulties a national government can accommodate multiple political and economic priorities. If that is so, it is not a credible bus stop: it is what might be called fudging. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No amount of fudging the figures, glossy brochures or spin doctoring will conceal that fact. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have a deep suspicion of the faceless men in back offices who think they can solve our problems by fudging words. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This proposal, however, is fudging the issue at considerable expense and it will not work in the relevant period of time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is no reneging or fudging the issue. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am not fudging the issue in any way, but the time is not yet opportune. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We should be ashamed of government by stealth and lawmaking by fudging. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is no question of fudging this in the same way as various other issues were fudged. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If there is any fudging on it, we should not go forward. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is not much room for fudging over the issues of sovereignty, a common monetary policy or a single currency. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That may have something to do with the trimming of policies and the fudging of decisions which goes on. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There must be no fudging about never using them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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