Evasion

(noun.) the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver.

(noun.) nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do; 'his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible'; 'that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive'.

(noun.) the deliberate act of failing to pay money; 'his evasion of all his creditors'; 'he was indicted for nonpayment'.

(noun.) a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth.

录入:佩内洛普

• In trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Briggs replied, with meek evasion. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• That there article of clothing likeways belonged to, and was wore by--him as I have made mention on,' was again the dull Old Bailey evasion. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• This struck her as a clumsy evasion, and the thought gave a flash of keenness to her answer. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Any one might have seen in her haggard face that there was no suppression or evasion so far. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Divided interest and evasion destroy it. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• I have been shutting myself up and resting, said Will, feeling himself a sneak, but seeing no alternative to this evasion. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He has to pick his way between cowardly evasion on the one hand, and partisanship on the other. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I scorn your shifty evasions, and I scorn you,' said the schoolmaster. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• There would have been either the ostentation of a coxcomb, or the evasions of a mind too weak to defend its own vanities. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• It was full of odd, fantastic expression, of double meanings, of evasions, of suggestive vagueness. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• No more evasions. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Necessity, however, always forced him to submit at last, though frequently not till after many delays, evasions, and affected excuses. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• I fancy, even already, that unavailing attendance on delays and evasions has made you something less elastic than you used to be. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.

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