Shirk

(verb.) avoid dealing with; 'She shirks her duties'.

录入:维维恩

• Face to face with the Englishman, however, he did not shirk the combat, but, whirling his sword with a fierce cry, dashed boldly at his enemy. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Common men cannot shirk world politics and at the same time enjoy private freedom; but it has taken them countless generations to learn this. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I am the Relieving Officer appointed by eternal ordinance to do my work; I am not held in estimation according as I shirk it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• For if a nation declares it has reached its majority by instituting self-government, then it cannot shirk responsibility. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Now, that's shirking. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Then the sleepless Boots went shirking round from door to door, gathering up at each the Bluchers, Wellingtons, Oxonians, which stood outside. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I would be a poor wife for an English lord were I to be responsible for his shirking a plain duty. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Shirking won't do for me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• They played no blind-man's buff; they dealt not in whist; they shirked not the irksome journal, for alas! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

整理:雷蒙德