每日一词:"敷衍了事"用英语怎么说?
无论工作、还是学习,最忌讳的便是“敷衍了事”。有人说,如果你用敷衍的态度对待生活,那生活同样会回报你一个敷衍的结果。
“敷衍了事”,中文熟语,指“对一件事情不认真,马马虎虎,草草了事(act in a perfunctory manner)”,“take a perfunctory attitude”意思是“采取敷衍的态度”。
“敷衍”也表示“偷懒,应付(to fail to work as hard or as well as you should)”,翻译为“lie down on the job”。
例句:
他敷衍了几句就走了。
He just made a few causal remarks before he left.
敷衍地打招呼
Shuffle through the formal greetings
敷衍的检讨
Perfunctory self-criticism
对待工作我们不能敷衍。
We can't lie down on the job.