dodge

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /dɒd͡ʒ/    美 /dɑd͡ʒ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An act of dodging.
  2. A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.)
    — The dodges of women beat all comprehension; and I am sure she wouldn’t let the lad off so easily, if she had not some other scheme on hand.
  3. A line of work. slang
    — In the marketing dodge, that is known as rub-off.
动词 v.
  1. To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way. ambitransitive
    — He dodged traffic crossing the street.
  2. To avoid; to sidestep. figuratively,transitive
    — The politician dodged the question with a meaningless reply.
  3. To elude. transitive
    — “We must follow after this dreadnought, hard on her tracks. She shall not dodge me though she hide in unfathomed waters, or in the earth's bosom, or in lonely woods, or on crags!”
  4. To go, or cause to go, hither and thither. ambitransitive,archaic
    — Or if a footpad asks him for his money, what need he care provided he has an umbrella? He threatens to dodge the ferrule into the ruffian’s eye, and the fellow starts back and says, “Lord, sir! I meant no harm. […]
  5. To make an area of an image lighter (when processing photographs in a darkroom, this is accomplished by decreasing the exposure of that area to light).
  6. To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place. transitive
    — "I had a notion he was dodging me all the way I came, for I saw him just behind me, turn which way I would."
  7. To trick somebody. ambitransitive,dated
形容词 adj.
  1. Dodgy. Australia,UK,colloquial

词形变化

dodges present,singular,third-person dodging participle,present dodged participle,past dodged past dodges plural more dodge comparative most dodge superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
dodgeable dodge a bullet dodgeball dodgeful dodgem dodger dodgery dodge the column dodge up dodgy draft-dodge outdodge undodged scaldrum dodge

词源

词源 1
Likely from dialectal dodge, dod, dodd (“to jog, trudge along, totter", also "to jerk, jig”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from unrecorded Middle English *dodden, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dud- (“to move”), related to Old English dydrian, dyderian (“to delude, deceive”), Middle English dideren (“to tremble, quake, shiver”), English dodder, Norwegian dudra (“to tremble”).
词源 2
Likely from dialectal dodge, dod, dodd (“to jog, trudge along, totter", also "to jerk, jig”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from unrecorded Middle English *dodden, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dud- (“to move”), related to Old English dydrian, dyderian (“to delude, deceive”), Middle English dideren (“to tremble, quake, shiver”), English dodder, Norwegian dudra (“to tremble”).
词源 3
Likely from dialectal dodge, dod, dodd (“to jog, trudge along, totter", also "to jerk, jig”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from unrecorded Middle English *dodden, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dud- (“to move”), related to Old English dydrian, dyderian (“to delude, deceive”), Middle English dideren (“to tremble, quake, shiver”), English dodder, Norwegian dudra (“to tremble”).
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