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budge

/buhj/US // bʌdʒ //UK // (bʌdʒ) //

让步,小费,动弹,动弹不得

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v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    budged, budg·ing.

    • : to move slightly; begin to move: He stepped on the gas but the car didn't budge.
    • : to change one's opinion or stated position; yield: Once her father had said “no,” he wouldn't budge.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    budged, budg·ing.

    • : to cause to move; begin to move: It took three of them to budge the rock.
    • : to cause to reconsider or change an opinion, decision, or stated position: They couldn't budge the lawyer.

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Examples

  • The cost per transistor—which once fell at the same exponential rate that transistor density increased—hasn’t budged for more than three generations of chipmaking.

  • Several other WallStreetBets believers said they aren’t budging, regardless of the damage.

  • Temperatures have fallen into the upper 20s to near 30 and may not budge a whole lot overnight.

  • After months of barely budging, rates rose significantly in early January at their strongest pace since the spring.

  • McConnell is engaging the negotiators even though he hasn’t budged.

  • During his budge speech, Treasurer Joe Hockey proclaimed: “The age of entitlement is over.”

  • Nothing, it seems, will budge them from their opposition to give-and-take of governance.

  • The Democratic presidential administration refuses to budge, and the government is shut down.

  • In this crisis, there were no hands on deck—no one willing to budge one iota from their respective ideological corners.

  • The administration refused to budge on calling a spade a spade.

  • Hamilton sprang to his aid and did his utmost to effect his release; but, powerful as he was, he could not budge him.

  • And before I could budge she throws her arms around my neck and told me to say it again, say it again, say it again!

  • Budge is lambskin with the wool dressed outwards, worn on the edge of the hoods of bachelors of arts, etc.

  • "Don't you budge an inch from there till I git back," shouted Shorty, as he drove away.

  • He could not budge it, nor could the mighty Ling, nor could all of them together.