cop-out [
'kɑp`aʊt]
- The TV debate was a cop-out: it didn't tackle any of the real issues.
电视辩论不过是虚晃一枪, 并未解决任何实际问题. - Don't cop-out on me now.You promised you'd go.
别想溜。你说过你会去的。 - That's just a cop-out. Just be brave and tell the truth.
那只是借口,勇敢一点实话实说。
- Not to adjust "is a cop-out," he says.
- The plot becomes almost existential, but the ending is a cop-out.
- He charges that the youth's choice in earning $300 a day and up for selling crack rather than working in fast-food franchises is "a complete cop-out.
- Fred Wertheimer, president of Common Cause, which filed the original ethics complaint against the five senators in October 1989, lambasted the committee's action as a "cop-out" and a "damning indictment of the committee."
- To describe this as a cynical cop-out would seem to be pitching it a bit high. It is a disgrace, though nothing more than we have come to expect from ITV during 1993.
- It's a cop-out." Liberal delegates were pleased by the House of Bishops action.
- Only the media expect this.' But other experts think such arguments are a cop-out.
- When we come to B in this publication, the extent of the cop-out becomes clear: 'B is Blast Out The Message' that rugby union is the greatest et cetera et cetera.
- To think that the summer was the reason for the malaise we've had is really a cop-out.
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