avoid or neglect (a duty or responsibility)
逃避(义务,责任)
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I do not shirk any responsibility in this matter 在这件事上,我不逃避任何责任
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[no obj.]
she is neither shirking nor lying 她既不在推诿,也不在说谎。
[no obj.][usu. with negative]
逃避做(难事),不愿做(难事)
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we will not shirk from closing a school if the evidence should justify it .如有事实证明关闭一所学校是正确的,那我们就不会退脱。
〈古〉 逃避责任(或义务)者。
"mid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘practise fraud or trickery’): from obsolete