cop-out

英 [ˈkɒp aʊt]

美 [ˈkɑːp aʊt]

n.  逃避(或躲避)的方法; (不做某事的)借口

复数：cop-outs　

法律

牛津词典

noun

• 逃避（或躲避）的方法；（不做某事的）借口
  a way of avoiding doing sth that you should do, or an excuse for not doing it
  1. Not turning up was just a cop-out.
     不露面只不过是在逃避而已。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 逃避（或躲避）的方法
  If you refer to something as acop-out, you think that it is a way for someone to avoid doing something that they should do.
  1. To decline to vote is a cop-out...
     拒绝投票就是一种逃避。
  2. The film's ending is an unsatisfactory cop-out.
     电影回避式的结局让人不满。

双语例句

• Any hard decisions have been given to a commission& a cop-out that condemns workers and firms to more crippling uncertainty about how the country's fiscal mess will be tackled.
  任何艰难的决定都推给了委员会&这种逃避行为迫使工人和企业越发不确定该国的财政混乱局面将如何收拾。
• Telling him you're ill sounds like a cop-out to me.
  跟他说你病了在我扣起来像是借口。
• Instead of camping they stayed in a hotel; what a cop-out!
  们没有去野营，而是呆在旅店里；放弃了多可惜啊！
• I thought the end of the film was a bit of a cop-out.
  我觉得电影的结局有点避重就轻。
• Alternative energy sounds like a cop-out.
  替代能源听起来像个幌子。
• The film's ending is an unsatisfactory cop-out.
  电影回避式的结局让人不满。
• He said: It's a cop-out if you ask me.
  他说：这是一个认罪，如果你问我。
• Jimmy was known to the team as a cop-out because he never showed up for important games.
  队里都知道吉米是个喜欢临阵脱逃的人，凡是重要比赛都不见他人影。
• Most of the enterprise implementation process to the end into a "cop-out" oreven "settle a matter by leaving it unsettled" embarrassing position.
  大多数企业的实施过程到最后都陷入了虎头蛇尾甚至不了了之的尴尬境地。
• To decline to vote is a cop-out
  拒绝投票就是一种逃避。