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fair shake

公平摇摆,公平的摇摆,公平竞争

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Informal.

    • : an equitable opportunity or treatment: The judges promised that every entrant in the contest would get a fair shake.

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Examples

  • The belief that it is fathers, not mothers, who can’t get a fair shake in custody cases is further fueled by fathers’ rights groups’ claims that courts are biased against fathers.

  • In short, institutional wealth is probably here to stay, the middle class hasn’t gotten its fair shake and the location of the post-office box where you drop your taxes on April 15 probably matters more than you realize.

  • Compared to the myriad ways animals have to cool down—dogs pant, elephants flap their big ears, vultures poop on their legs and feet—we got a pretty fair shake.

  • Even internally in the House, women are not getting their fair shake.

  • Vicky Ward was a contributing editor to Vanity Fair for 11 years.

  • Frustrating as regulars find these fair-weather exercise interlopers, they were also all beginners once, he says.

  • Perhaps it always seems that way at the time, but surely we face our fair share right now.

  • To be fair, no artist had ever been asked to, or could have pulled it off if they had.

  • The women at once rose and began to shake out their draperies and relax their muscles.

  • Finally, let me ask the general reader to put aside all prejudice, and give both sides a fair hearing.

  • Grandmamma sits in her quaint arm-chair— Never was lady more sweet and fair!

  • He was tall and of familiar figure, and the firelight was playing in the tossed curls of his short, fair hair.

  • Mary is fair as the morning dew— Cheeks of roses and ribbons of blue!