cut corners
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動詞
編輯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)
- 抄近路或違反交通規則來超過別人
- 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) 偷工減料,圖省事
- The guy who built the fence cut corners when sinking the posts, and the fence fell over in the last storm.
- 建圍欄的人在立杆子的時候偷工減料,上次刮暴風之後圍欄倒了。
- Do you know why Wendy's has square burgers? Because they don't cut corners.
- 你知道為什麼溫蒂漢堡有方形漢堡嗎?因為他們都是實打實的。
近義詞
編輯- (偷工減料): skimp, take short cuts, follow the path of least resistance, take the easy way out, (俚語) half-ass