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to avoid doing something you should do, especially because you are too lazy 逃避（工作）；躲懒 Discipline in the company was strict and no one shirked. 公司有严格的纪律，没有人偷懒。 🔊🔊 - shirk from something/doing something
A determined burglar will not shirk from breaking a window to gain entry. 一个决计要下手的窃贼会不惜破窗而入。 🔊🔊 - shirk something/doing something
She never shirked her responsibilities. 她从不逃避自己的职责。 🔊🔊
Oxford Collocations DictionaryShirk is used with these nouns as the object:- duty
- responsibility
Word Originmid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘practise fraud or trickery’): from obsolete shirk ‘sponger’, perhaps from German Schurke ‘scoundrel’.