/ʃrʌg ||; ʃrʌg/verb
[I,T] (shrugging;shrugged) to lift your shoulders as a way of showing that you do not know sth or are not interested 耸肩(以示不知道或不感兴趣) [I]
‘Who knows?’ he said and shrugged. 他耸耸肩说:“谁知道!” [T] ‘It doesn't matter to me,’ he said, shrugging his shoulders. 他耸耸肩说:“这与我无关。” ☞picture on page S19 见S19页插图
shrugnoun [C] [usu.sing]
I asked him if he was sorry and he just answered with a shrug.我问他是不是感到遗憾,他只是耸一耸肩,算是回答。shrug sth off to not allow sth to affect you in a bad way 不让某事对自己产生不利影响:
An actor has to learn to shrug off criticism.演员非得学会对批评不屑一顾不行。
shrug/ʃrʌg; ʃrʌɡ/v [I,T] shrugged , shrugging to raise and lower your shoulders to show that you do not know or care about something 耸肩: Dan shrugged and returned to his book. 丹耸了耸肩又回头去看书了。Melanie shrugged her shoulders . 梅拉妮耸耸肩。 —shrug n [C] shrug sth off phr v to treat something as unimportant and not worry about it 对…不屑理睬﹐对…满不在乎: Mary tried to shrug off her failure. 玛丽试着不去理会自己的失败。
shrugshrugshrugsshruggedshruggingverb (shrugs, shrugging, shrugged)to move your shoulders to show that you do not know or do not care about something: I asked her where Sam was but she just shrugged.▶ shrugnoun: He answered my question with a shrug.