sidestep

英 [ˈsaɪdstep]

美 [ˈsaɪdstep]

v.  回避，规避(问题等); 横跨一步躲过; 侧移一步闪过
n.  台阶; [体]避开与强手对阵; 侧跨步; 横跳躲闪

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牛津词典

verb

• 回避，规避（问题等）
  to avoid answering a question or dealing with a problem
  1. Did you notice how she neatly sidestepped the question?
     你有没有注意到她多么巧妙地回避了那个问题？
• 横跨一步躲过；侧移一步闪过
  to avoid sth, for example being hit, by stepping to one side
  1. He cleverly sidestepped the tackle.
     他巧妙地一晃，绕过阻截队员。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 回避，规避(问题等)
  If yousidestepa problem, you avoid discussing it or dealing with it.
  1. Rarely, if ever, does he sidestep a question...
     他极少逃避问题。
  2. He was trying to sidestep responsibility.
     他正试图回避责任。
• VERB 横跨一步躲过;侧移一步闪开
  If yousidestep, you step sideways in order to avoid something or someone that is coming towards you or going to hit you.
  1. As I sidestepped, the bottle hit me on the left hip...
     我侧一步要躲闪的时候，瓶子打中了我的左髋部。
  2. He made a grab for her but she sidestepped him.
     他想要抓住她，但她侧步闪开了。

英英释义

noun

• a step to one side (as in boxing or dancing)

verb

• avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
  1. He dodged the issue
  2. she skirted the problem
  3. They tend to evade their responsibilities
  4. he evaded the questions skillfully
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双语例句

• It was supposed to provide a way to sidestep third parties banks and other foreign exchange providers and create an alternative system that could essentially be run by users themselves.
  比特币的发明，原本是为了提供一条途径以避开第三方机构银行及其他外汇供应商并创造一个本质上可以让用户自己运营的替代性金融系统。
• He was trying to sidestep responsibility.
  他正试图回避责任。
• However, the exchange is trying to sidestep controversy by describing the new market as for "institutional, professional and highly knowledgeable" investors, so it does not need the same level of regulation as the main list.
  然而，伦敦证交所正试图回避争议，它形容这个新型市场是为“机构型、专业类和投资知识非常丰富的”投资者而设，因此不需要与主板上市进行同样的监管。
• I don't think there's any way in the world you can sidestep all hell.
  我想人生在世是不能躲过所有灾难的。
• Some sales occur through platforms such as Nasdaq; many sidestep even these private markets.
  一些股权出售通过纳斯达克等平台进行；很多甚至连这些私人市场也避开。
• Sidestep the unnecessary blows and mitigate those you can't avoid.
  回避不必要打击，减轻无法回避的打击。
• In this case, there's no point in making the rest of your systems deliver any more, unless you can widen or sidestep the bottleneck.
  在这种情况下，提交系统其余的部分没有任何意义，除非你可以扩大或者回避这个瓶颈。
• One might sidestep the question and simply accept the gas-dust complexes as something actually observed.
  我们也可以避开这个问题，而简单地承认气尖复合体是实际观测到的某种东西而已。
• Sidestep: to dodge an issue or a responsibility.
  回避：避开问题或责任。
• He has the ability to sidestep opponents and to make prodigious leaps, blocking shots and grabbing rebounds.
  他擅长躲避对手，在封阻对方的投篮或拼抢篮板球时做出惊人的跳跃动作。