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sidestepping

/sahyd-step/US // ˈsaɪdˌstɛp //UK // (ˈsaɪdˌstɛp) //

绕道而行,绕行,旁敲侧击,绕道

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    side·stepped, side·step·ping.

    • : to step to one side.
    • : to evade or avoid a decision, problem, or the like.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    side·stepped, side·step·ping.

    • : to avoid or dodge by stepping aside.
    • : to evade or avoid.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • It can be extremely awkward to ask a friend to put their mask on when they aren’t eating or to sidestep a hug from a loved one.

  • Hirshland, for her part, sidesteps the issue in her tweet and doesn’t try to suggest what a divisive demonstration might look like.

  • Both ads sidestep seasonal cliches, albeit from opposite ends of the spectrum.

  • On the walk home through my Left Bank neighborhood, I sidestepped a restaurant that was packed both inside and at the tables set up along the sidewalk.

  • That’s enabled its permit customers to sidestep heavy fines while delaying introduction of low-margin EVs, and packing their fleets with lucrative, gas-guzzling SUVs, trucks, and vans.

  • But Pragnell is hoping Casa Bruja will sidestep the trend's downturn.

  • A man appears to sidestep Graham as she walks by, then begins to follow her.

  • Justice Thurgood Marshall saw this sidestep for what it was.

  • The only question now is whether Boehner has the onions to sidestep the radicals.

  • Sidestep snobby French cab drivers by hiring an iPad-toting chauffeur-driven car.

  • Rapid fire legs sidestep the etchings of industrious ants while silverfish are the boatmen trouncing human oars.

  • When you seek to escape you find yourself backed up to the wall with no chance to sidestep.

  • "I just somehow kain't git over the notion she ought to sidestep them little rocks and holes of her own accord," he exclaimed.

  • By the time Kinton's aging muscles obeyed his impulse to sidestep, the spear had already hurtled past.

  • It was advantageous to sidestep the Crown since a letter or document took half a year to reach Spain.

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