| 词汇 | dodge |
| 释义 | dodge verb uk /dɒdʒ/ us /dɑːdʒ/ [ I or T ] to avoid being hit by something by moving quickly to one side: 躲闪，避开 He dodged to avoid the hurtling bicycle.他闪身躲过了疾驰而来的自行车。 [ T ] to avoid something unpleasant: 回避，逃避 The Senator dodged questions about his relationship with the actress.参议员回避了关于他与那位女演员之间关系的问题。 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. Moving in order to avoid contact avoid avoid something like the plagueidiom avoidance bypass circumnavigate clear duck duck and weaveidiom evasive action evasively evasiveness fall fall back jump shrug away sidestep skirt steer steer clear of someone/somethingidiom weave You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Avoiding action Idiomdodge a bullet dodge noun[ C ] informaluk /dɒdʒ/ us /dɑːdʒ/ a clever, dishonest way of avoiding something: （巧妙而具欺骗性的）逃避 tax dodge They bought another car as a tax dodge (= a way to avoid paying tax).为了逃税，他们又买了一辆汽车。 Avoiding action abrogate abrogation avoid avoid something like the plagueidiom avoidance end-run eschew evader evasion fiddle fiddle around insure shirk short circuit shrink from something shy away from something sit on your arseidiom steer welch Welsh dodge | American Dictionarydodge verb[ I/T ] us/dɑdʒ/ to avoid being hit by something by moving quickly to one side: fig. We have dodged a bullet a lot of times in the last three or four years. To dodge something unpleasant is to avoid it: [ T ]Few men still talk about how they dodged the draft. dodge noun[ C ] us/dɑdʒ/ a trick to deceive someone or to avoid doing something that you do not want to do: She sells antiques as a tax dodge. dodge | Business Englishdodge verb[ T ] informaluk /dɒdʒ/us to avoid something, especially illegally: He has repeatedly dodged questions from reporters. The company filed for bankruptcy, seeking to dodge $445,000 in debts. Many people caught dodging tax were doing so to hide capital gains made on the stock market. dodge noun[ C ] informaluk /dɒdʒ/us a way of avoiding something, sometimes illegally: When measured in yen, trade went up by only 2%, but measuring trade in yen is a dodge, because almost all of it is conducted in dollars. See also tax dodge Examples of dodgedodge My account of the evening cannot, however, do justice to the tactical facades - the bluffs, grand postures, and imperceptible dodges - so common to tournament settings. I knocked down three times then he dodged me into water. Using shapes dodged the limitation that animals do not know about politicians. There could be no dodging the consequences. A series of dodges and excuses continued. When we try to dodge diseases or disadvantages through genetic intervention, are we solving problems or just moving them to a different level? Nevertheless, small property-owners could dodge this obstacle by forming associations that shared the costs of buying and installing subterranean pumping machinery. Molecular biology and molecular genetics might continue to dodge teleological issues were it not for their fields' remarkable recent successes. We easily dodge an approaching car because, for millions of years, our ancestors have been dodging charging predators. Policymakers get to make rules, but dodge responsibility for them, by piggy-backing on the decisions of others, whom they can blame when things go wrong. Methods of rubbish disposal: 'shuffle and dodge'? Both thereby dodge the hard hermeneutic slog of text-to-context analysis, which is necessarily grounded in painstaking readings of the entire assemblage of material, documentary and oral evidence. If they are to avoid falling into the theoretical machinery that perpetuates such stereotypes, women are obliged constantly to dodge the conceptual apparatuses that seek to mould their language. Sequestered royalists often attempted to dodge the consequences of their delinquency by transferring the titles to their lands, a tactic used especially by widows seeking to keep their estates together. I trust that critical part of the mandate will not be dodged or diluted; otherwise, we merely store up more trouble for the future. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English See all examples of dodge 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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