shirking
present participle ofshirk
| 单词 | shirking |
| 释义 | shirking present participle ofshirk shirk verb[IorT] disapprovinguk/ʃɜːk/us/ʃɝːk/toavoidwork,duties, orresponsibilities,especiallyif they aredifficultorunpleasant: If you shirkyourresponsibilities/dutiesnow, thesituationwill be muchhardertodealwith nextmonth. I will not shirkfrommyobligations. to avoid doing something
Avoiding action
Examplesofshirkingshirking In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Assume that the probability of detectingshirkingworkers depends on the complexity of the routine of which they are part. From theCambridge English Corpus In addition, all parties know that the probability of verification givenshirkingis one-third. From theCambridge English Corpus Finally, this case points to two general limitations of both theshirkingand reputation-building interpretations of ideology. From theCambridge English Corpus As a result, time-series (more specifically, pooled cross-sectional time-series) data were introduced in the early 1990s, and cross-timeshirkinganalyses were produced. From theCambridge English Corpus To highlight the effect of disincentives, they play two games that are identical except that one allows employers to punish workers forshirking. From theCambridge English Corpus But this fact might conceal larceny, which was the authorities' nightmare together with theshirkingof duty and insubordination. From theCambridge English Corpus There was little a planter could do to coerce the contractor to minimize the risk ofshirking. From theCambridge English Corpus His or her counterpart in the sugar plantations elsewhere in the world was concerned aboutshirkingand industriousness. From theCambridge English Corpus Second, the technology of the assembly line brought with it low monitoring costs and a nearly 100% chance of catchingshirkingworkers. From theCambridge English Corpus As discussed previously, historical accounts identified the president (and, to a lesser extent, party leaders) as the focal point in anyshirking-related stories. From theCambridge English Corpus Hence, such a simple quantitative measure ofshirkingcan, in cases where extreme views are likely to generate support, mislead. From theCambridge English Corpus What is even more striking is that reciprocity is destroyed by just a one-third chance of getting caught whenshirking. From theCambridge English Corpus These daily experiences create an obvious temptation to 'hypocrisy' orshirkingof the work of the movement. From theCambridge English Corpus Increasing information asymmetries between voters and their political agents due to higher costs of monitoring, then, encourageshirkingby public actors. From theCambridge English Corpus There was neither any way to reciprocate positively by working better or faster, nor any way to reciprocate negatively byshirking. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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