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单词 budge
释义
budge
(bʌ )
Word forms: budges , budging , budged
1. verb
If someone will not budge on a matter, or if nothing budges them, they refuse to change their mind or to come to an agreement.
Both sides say they will not budge. [VERB]
The Americans are adamant that they will not budge on this point. [VERB]
No amount of prodding will budge him. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: yield, change, compromise, bend  
2. verb
If someone or something will not budge, they will not move. If you cannot budge them, you cannot make them move.
Her mother refused to budge from London. [VERB]
The window refused to budge. [VERB]
I got a grip on the boat and pulled but I couldn't budge it. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: dislodge, move, push, roll  
Collocations:
not budge an inch
But he won't budge an inch on these promises.
The Sun
It didn't budge an inch.
Times, Sunday Times
We should not budge an inch on this issue, no matter how furious the savages become about films which exist only in their strange and dangerous minds.
The Sun
But she should not have budged an inch.
The Sun
Neither side budged an inch.
Christianity Today
Translations:
Chinese: 做让步
Japanese: 意見を変えさせる/意見を変える
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