cop-out
英 [ˈkɒp aʊt]
美 [ˈkɑːp aʊt]
n. 逃避(或躲避)的方法; (不做某事的)借口
复数:cop-outs
牛津词典
noun
- 逃避(或躲避)的方法;(不做某事的)借口
a way of avoiding doing sth that you should do, or an excuse for not doing it- Not turning up was just a cop-out.
不露面只不过是在逃避而已。
- Not turning up was just a cop-out.
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 逃避(或躲避)的方法
If you refer to something as acop-out, you think that it is a way for someone to avoid doing something that they should do.- To decline to vote is a cop-out...
拒绝投票就是一种逃避。 - The film's ending is an unsatisfactory cop-out.
电影回避式的结局让人不满。
- To decline to vote is a cop-out...
双语例句
- That is an unbelievable cop-out!
你这算是什么藉口! - And, besides, many feel it's a cop-out.
此外,许多人认为这是一种逃避。 - To pin the blame on culture is the ultimate cop-out.
把责任推给文化是最站不住脚的借口。 - But it has the disadvantage of being a shameful cop-out as if you are forecasting it is your job to imagine those ways – and to tell us what they are.
但它的缺点在于它逃避了应尽的责任:如果你要作预测,就该由你来想象这些方式,并告诉我们这些方式是什么。 - Alternative energy sounds like a cop-out.
替代能源听起来像个幌子。 - Saying "but its REST" and claiming that everything will be dynamic is a cop-out and it really just means you are lazy.
说“但这是REST”(译者注:言外之意是这不是SOA)并声称所有的事情将是动态的,这样的说法就是一种借口,而实际上只能说明你懒。 - Instead of camping they stayed in a hotel; what a cop-out!
们没有去野营,而是呆在旅店里;放弃了多可惜啊! - In the end the G20 avoided public disagreement only by backing away from binding goals and resorting to a familiar cop-out: punting the issue to the International Monetary Fund.
最终G20之所以没有产生公开分歧,一是因为绕开了具有约束力的目标,二是因为又使出了惯用的逃避手段&把问题踢给了国际货币基金组织(IMF)。 - Jury thinks that's a cop-out.
陪审团认为那是托词。 - Telling him you're ill sounds like a cop-out to me.
跟他说你病了在我扣起来像是借口。