shirk
shirk 英 [ʃɜ:k] 美 [ʃɜrk]
vt. 逃避 vi. 推卸；逃避
进行时:shirking 过去式:shirked 过去分词:shirked 第三人称单数:shirks 名词复数:shirks
- To shirk your responsibilities is to avoid dealing with them — like when you watch four consecutive hours of infomercials instead of facing your homework.
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- vt. 逃避
- vi. 推卸；逃避
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1. You can't shirk, it's your duty.
你别想逃避责任，这本来就是你的职责。
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2. Today, however, many young people not only shirk this duty, but insist that it is actually the duty of parents to do all they can to care for them, even as adults.
然而当今，许多年轻人不仅逃避这种责任，还坚持认为父母实际上有义务尽己所能照顾他们，即使他们已经成年。
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3. Resisting the pulse is now conflated with resisting people. To not be connected is to shirk our social responsibilities. What if something happened? What if somebody needed you?
抵抗这种脉动就等同于抵抗这个人。不与外界联通就相当于逃避我们的社会责任。如果发生什么事儿呢？如果有人需要你呢？
- shirk (v.) 1630s, "to practice fraud or trickery," also a noun (1630s, now obsolete) "a needy, disreputable parasite" [OED], perhaps from German schurke "scoundrel, rogue, knave, villain" (see shark (n.)). Sense of "evade one's work or duty" first recorded 1785, originally in slang. Related: Shirked; shirking.
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