cut corners
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动词[编辑]
cut corners (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 cuts corners，現在分詞 cutting corners，一般過去時及過去分詞 cut corners)
- 抄近路或违反交通规则来超过别人
- 1882, Dan Seffert, quoted in “Half Hours with Dan Seffert”, in Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Volume 39, page 275:
- […] but I believe the old man did not ride fair, as he cut corners and joined in with them again […]
- 1882, Dan Seffert, quoted in “Half Hours with Dan Seffert”, in Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Volume 39, page 275:
- (俗語) 偷工减料，图省事
- The guy who built the fence cut corners when sinking the posts, and the fence fell over in the last storm.
- 建围栏的人在立杆子的时候偷工减料，上次刮暴风之后围栏倒了。
- Do you know why Wendy's has square burgers? Because they don't cut corners.
- 你知道为什么温蒂汉堡有方形汉堡吗？因为他们都是实打实的。
近义词[编辑]
- (偷工减料)： skimp, take short cuts, follow the path of least resistance, take the easy way out, (俚语) half-ass