shrug的意思|shrug的解释-里氏词典

shrug [ʃrʌg]

n. 耸肩

vt. 耸肩

vi. 耸肩

shrug
shrugged, shrugging

[ noun ]

a gesture involving the shoulders

<noun.communication>

[ verb ]

raise one's shoulders to indicate indifference or resignation

<verb.body>

Shrug \Shrug\ (shr[u^]g), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shrugged}
(shr[u^]gd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Shrugging} (shr[u^]g"g[i^]ng).]
[Probably akin to shrink, p. p. shrunk; cf. Dan. skrugge,
skrukke, to stoop, dial. Sw. skrukka, skruga, to crouch.]
To draw up or contract (the shoulders), especially by way of
expressing doubt, indifference, dislike, dread, or the like.

He shrugs his shoulders when you talk of securities.
--Addison.

Shrug \Shrug\, v. i.
To raise or draw up the shoulders, as in expressing doubt,
indifference, dislike, dread, or the like.

They grin, they shrug.
They bow, they snarl, they snatch, they hug. --Swift.

shrug \shrug\, n.
A gesture consisting of drawing up the shoulders, -- a motion
usually expressing doubt, indifference, or dislike; -- it is
sometimes accompanied by a slight turning of the hands
outward or upward. Such a gesture may be made, as in
answering "who knows" to a question, suggesting utter
ignorance of an answer and a disinclination to pursue the
topic further.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

On Sept. 23, in a major speech in New York, the
chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commision,
Arthur Levitt asked the Big Board to spike the rule
[Rule 390] in the interest of free and unfettered
markets. . . . Mr. Grasso responded with a shrug,
saying that he had no plans to kill the rule.
--Gretchen
Morgenson (N.
Y. Times Nov.
28, 1999 sect.
3 p. 1.
[PJC]

The Spaniards talk in dialogues
Of heads and shoulders, nods and shrugs. --Hudibras.

Established German singers like Rene Kollo have given performances for no fee. But the hangover from unification is proving hard to shrug off. Orchestra salaries in Dresden are still only 60 per cent of those in Hamburg or Stuttgart.
Government may be inclined to shrug its shoulders.
He estimates with a vague shrug that he has attended six or seven different schools as his family worked its way through Missouri and Arkansas.
For a start, the corruption scandal - known locally as Tangentopoli ('Bribe Cities') - has done serious harm, even if some industrialists are inclined to shrug it off. The damage, says Mr Cipoletta, has been enormous.
It appears thanks largely to them that the London market managed to shrug off disappointment at the lack of an interest rate cut at the Tory party conference and close the week at a new high.
With an exaggerated shrug of his shoulders and a glance around a room that was filled to capacity, he said: "Oh, probably nothing.
Perrier's goal is to become so diversified in water that it can shrug off any one brand's problems.
"If I'd have thought about it," he says with a shrug, "I guess I could have just run over it."
Investors appeared to shrug off the Chinese government's angry response to electoral reform proposals put forward by HK governor Chris Patten.
GRAINS AND SOYBEANS: News of more export business allowed wheat futures to shrug off declines in corn and soybean futures.
Mr. Reagan's early endorsement of "the investigative process" means he cannot now shrug off a single caprice Congress throws his way.
Black activists shrug off the elections as a farce.
Some contruction stocks surged in anticipaton of greater demand for cement and other building materials on account of the quake. Technology stocks appeared to shrug off initial concerns in the market about problems at Silicon Valley facilities.
A block of 3m shares was sold into the market at 599p and mostly placed at 600p. Bargain hunters helped engineering group Siebe shrug off recent weakness to advance 5 to 460p.
Other advertisers simply shrug off negative publicity about rappers.
Mr. Mitterrand also has managed to shrug off Gallically the myriad "affaires" that have implicated members of his Socialist government in assorted quasi-legal and illegal activities, including sales of arms to Iran.
When none was proffered, the coach could only shrug.
"I say want to say `hi,"' the scrubbed, crew-cut youth said with a shrug.
"She's hard to please," he says with a shrug.
He also makes it evident it will not be the sort of person who might shrug him aside. 'It would have to be someone who has worked in the business for at least a year,' he says.
But Alan Greenspan, the Fed's chairman, plainly took them seriously, calling the report on consumer prices "disturbing." That made it pretty hard for anyone else to shrug them off.
Other analysts noted that Mr. Greenspan's comments helped the market shrug off fears the Fed planned to ease U.S. interest rates soon.
When he asks an elderly couple why they helped, they shrug.
It is the most important thing,' he wrote in a book about the company. PG, as he is universally known in Sweden, will doubtless shrug off such awkward echoes from the past.
Corporate currency buyers and speculators also have been encouraged by the dollar's ability to shrug off last week's strong intervention by central banks, dealers said.
American Capital officials shrug off the gripes.
We at Disney are the last ones going down.' ASK ANY restaurateur about the effect on trade of his customers' continued financial restraint and he will probably just shrug his shoulders.
Sales also fell in Italy, as the lira's devaluation hit price competitiveness. The French group managed to shrug off the impact of sterling's devaluation and increase car sales to Britain by 14.5 per cent.
It managed to shrug off the data.'
"Maybe because I was older, he found it easy to talk to me," says Miss Scott with a shrug.

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