| 词汇 | shirked |
| 释义 | shirked past simple and past participle ofshirk shirk verb[ I or T ] disapprovinguk /ʃɜːk/ us /ʃɝːk/ to avoid work, duties, or responsibilities, especially if they are difficult or unpleasant: 逃避（尤指困难或令人不快的工作、责任等） If you shirk your responsibilities/duties now, the situation will be much harder to deal with next month.如果你现在逃避责任的话，情况到了下个月只会变得更难处理。 I will not shirk from my obligations.我不会逃避我的义务。 to avoid doing something avoidAvoid swimming in areas where sharks are known to congregate. evadePlease don’t think I’m trying to evade my responsibility. dodgeHe tried to dodge his military service. run away fromI didn't often run away from difficult decisions. shrink fromI've never been one to shrink from a challenge. sidestepThis is not a responsibility you can sidestep. 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 shirkedshirked In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Basically, boundary nouns are shirked at conflict sites. It is that even very modest burdens of citizenship are shirked. And further, '(he) shall be failing in (his) duty if he shirked any responsibility which may be cast on (him)'. It has not switched sides, has not threatened the government, and has not shirked from combat - three traits of many past mercenary operations. Where there are controversies, they have not been shirked. In short, we find no evidence that lame ducks shirked toward the president, viewed narrowly as the agent of his party. But it would fail to explain why biological parents also owe the support to their children and why their children may rightfully complain if the duty is shirked. Close inquiry is not so much guarded against as shirked by those who wish to believe in it. For those of us who have the responsibilities, they cannot be dodged or shirked, and we will not shirk them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Governments have shirked that subject because it divides the people and there is a great leaning both ways. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At that time we were not quite so friendly towards people who shirked, people who would not stand in with their comrades. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The fact is that whatever your views may be on nuclear energy, this part of the cycle cannot be abandoned or shirked. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English That is not an easy thing to do, although we have not shirked doing it in many directions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have taken on the problems that our predecessors shirked and set the economy on the right course for the long term. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No one can say that we have shirked our duty. 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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