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单词 short shrift
释义
short shrift
noun[U]
uk
/ˌʃɔːt ˈʃrɪft/us
/ˌʃɔːrt ˈʃrɪft/
If you get or are givenshortshrift by someone, you aretreatedwithoutsympathyand given littleattention:
忽视，冷遇，怠慢
He'llgetshortshrift from me if hestartscomplainingaboutmoneyagain, now that Iknowhow much heearns!现在我知道他挣多少钱了，如果他再开始抱怨钱，我就不会再理他！
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Idiom

make short shrift ofsomething
(Definition ofshort shriftfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofshort shrift

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Race and gender issues, for instance, getshortshrift(pp. 145-7).
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Former movement leaders, some now in government, give the remnants of their former movements and othersshortshrift.
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Crucial aspects of these variegated problems are almost certainly going to getshortshriftin any monograph.
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He gives particularlyshortshriftto the alternative possibilities (gender, ethnicity and so on); see his comments on page 19 for example.
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Limited almost exclusively to problems of spatial perception, that analysis givesshortshriftto even the most fundamental issues of psychological or physiological import.
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Pensions, social services, health care and social assistance get veryshortshriftin comparison with developments in trade, manufacturing, industrial relations and employment structure.
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In addition, some of the most interesting recent findings and controversies are either not mentioned or are givenshortshrift.
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To the bankers' cries of ruin and humiliation they gaveshortshrift.
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The word itself getsshortshriftin music dictionaries.
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He gave other critics of duellingshortshrift, stressing the extreme discourtesy of all real wrongs.
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The concept of virtue ethics generally is givenshortshrift.
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A lot of interesting issues receive quiteshortshriftin other chapters.
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Those with a lack of access have been givenshortshrift.
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I am, because of theshortshriftgiven to the central character, momentum, and some other modelling details.
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The last thirty years are given veryshortshrift.
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