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单词 evasive
释义
evasive
adjective
uk
/ɪˈveɪ.sɪv/us
/ɪˈveɪ.sɪv/
answeringquestionsin a way that is notdirectorclear,especiallybecause you do notwantto give anhonestanswer:
回避的；推托的；闪烁其辞的
The Minister was herusualevasiveself,skilfullydodgingreporters'questionsabout herpossibleresignation.部长还是保持她顾左右而言他的一贯风格，当记者问及她是否可能辞职时，她驾轻就熟地避而不答。
done toavoidsomethingbadhappening:
规避的
By thetimethepilotrealizedhowclosetheplanewas to thebuilding, it was too late to take evasiveaction.当飞行员意识到飞机与大楼非常接近时，已经来不及采取任何规避措施了。
Drivers had to makesuddenevasivemanoeuvres.驾驶员必须做出突然的闪避动作。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Digressing and being indirect or evasive
  • bury the ledeidiom
  • candy coat
  • candy coating
  • candy-coated
  • circumlocutory
  • equivocate
  • euphemism
  • hedge
  • hedging
  • implicit
  • implicitly
  • indirectly
  • lede
  • mincing
  • move offsomething/on (tosomething)
  • obfuscate
  • obscure
  • sanitize
  • stray
  • veil
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evasiveness
(Definition ofevasivefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

evasive| American Dictionary

evasive
adjective
us
/ɪˈveɪ·sɪv/
done inordertoavoidsomething:
Are you beingdeliberatelyevasive?
Thepilothad to take evasiveactiontoavoidthe otherplane.
(Definition ofevasivefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofevasive

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The kadakkodi functionaries found it difficult to take action againstevasivemigrants, who continually moved from one village to another.
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Attempting to represent such anevasivereality demands the application of three successive steps.
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When faced with the sound trace of artificial vocality, a major problem is immediately apparent: its discretisation is veryevasive.
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Rationality, tooevasiveto be incorporated into the study of organizations, became an a priori scheme for the constitution of objects in organizational literature.
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Self-consciously reflexive statements may be regarded by some as pretentious orevasive, not profound and revealing.
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Evasivenoncompliance accurately describes gaming because the physician's action is covert and nonconfrontational.
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The multi-layer perceptron is trained with examples representing the typical static obstacles to be encountered by the robots and theevasiveactions to be taken.
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He is merelyevasive, simply trying to mislead her.
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In many situations, the target performsevasivemaneuvers.
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Evasivenoncompliance shares many attributes of civil disobedience.
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Furthermore, the findings demonstrate the usefulness of the paradigm adopted in this study as a more objective and reliable means of examining an otherwiseevasivephenomenon.
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I am trying to be asevasiveas possible.
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The answers to questions like this remain veryevasive, and indeed, often woolly.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Even their answers to specific questions wereevasive.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
The tanker tookevasiveaction but it did not prevent the collision.
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Hansard archive
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