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.
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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 […]
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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.