cut corners

短语
大学

抄近路

发音

AU

词形变化

cuts corners 三单 cuts corners cutting corners cutting corners 现在分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To bypass a prescribed route so as to gain competitive advantage or to circumvent traffic signals or other rules of the road.

    […] but I believe the old man did not ride fair, as he cut corners and joined in with them again […]

  2. 2.

    To do a less-than-thorough or incomplete job; to do something poorly; to take inappropriate shortcuts.

    偷工减料

    习语

    The guy who built the fence cut corners when sinking the posts, and the fence fell over in the last storm.

    Do you know why Wendy's has square burgers? Because they don't cut corners.

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