cop-out
英 [ˈkɒp aʊt]
美 [ˈkɑːp aʊt]
n. 逃避(或躲避)的方法; (不做某事的)借口
复数：cop-outs
牛津词典
noun
- 逃避（或躲避）的方法；（不做某事的）借口
a way of avoiding doing sth that you should do, or an excuse for not doing it- Not turning up was just a cop-out.
不露面只不过是在逃避而已。
- Not turning up was just a cop-out.
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 逃避（或躲避）的方法
If you refer to something as acop-out, you think that it is a way for someone to avoid doing something that they should do.- To decline to vote is a cop-out...
拒绝投票就是一种逃避。 - The film's ending is an unsatisfactory cop-out.
电影回避式的结局让人不满。
- To decline to vote is a cop-out...
双语例句
- I thought the end of the film was a bit of a cop-out.
我觉得电影的结局有点避重就轻。 - Saying "but its REST" and claiming that everything will be dynamic is a cop-out and it really just means you are lazy.
说“但这是REST”（译者注：言外之意是这不是SOA）并声称所有的事情将是动态的，这样的说法就是一种借口，而实际上只能说明你懒。 - He said: It's a cop-out if you ask me.
他说：这是一个认罪，如果你问我。 - Instead of camping they stayed in a hotel; what a cop-out!
们没有去野营，而是呆在旅店里；放弃了多可惜啊！ - Jimmy was known to the team as a cop-out because he never showed up for important games.
队里都知道吉米是个喜欢临阵脱逃的人，凡是重要比赛都不见他人影。 - Any hard decisions have been given to a commission& a cop-out that condemns workers and firms to more crippling uncertainty about how the country's fiscal mess will be tackled.
任何艰难的决定都推给了委员会&这种逃避行为迫使工人和企业越发不确定该国的财政混乱局面将如何收拾。 - Telling him you're ill sounds like a cop-out to me.
跟他说你病了在我扣起来像是借口。 - The film's ending is an unsatisfactory cop-out.
电影回避式的结局让人不满。 - To decline to vote is a cop-out
拒绝投票就是一种逃避。 - In the end the G20 avoided public disagreement only by backing away from binding goals and resorting to a familiar cop-out: punting the issue to the International Monetary Fund.
最终G20之所以没有产生公开分歧，一是因为绕开了具有约束力的目标，二是因为又使出了惯用的逃避手段&把问题踢给了国际货币基金组织（IMF）。