英语词汇“shirk”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	shirk
释义	shirk I. \ˈshərk, ˈshə̄k, ˈshəik\ verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: origin unknown *intransitive verb* 1. a. obsolete : to live by trickery and fraud : shark, sponge b. chiefly dialect : to take care of oneself under somewhat difficult circumstances : fend, shift 2. : to go stealthily : sneak < obliged to shirk on board by night to escape from their wives — W.M.Thackeray > 3. a. : to withdraw because of lack of courage < one of the cities shirked from the league — Lord Byron > b. : to evade the performance of an obligation because of laziness or fear < the timid flee, the lazy shirk — H.A.Overstreet > *transitive verb* 1. a. : to avoid (as a disagreeable task) because of laziness, lack of courage, or distaste < he had of course shirked telling her that no marriage would occur that day — Arnold Bennett > b. : to evade meeting (as a person) : dodge < shirked his gaze > 2. : to shift (as a responsibility) elsewhere < if he could shirk off the work upon the others he would — Nathaniel Hawthorne > Synonyms: see dodge II. noun (-s) 1. obsolete : one who lives by trickery and fraud : shark 2. : one who shirks work or obligations < was a lazy bum, a no-good, and a shirk — American Songbag > 3. a. : an act of shirking < saw the many shirks from doing his duty of which Hamlet was guilty — F.J.Furnivall > b. : the practice of shirking < work that is not needed and whose spirit of shirk inevitably demoralizes men — C.H.Rowell >
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