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单词 swing the lead
释义 ˌswing the ˈlead(old-fashioned, BrE, informal) (usually used in the progressive tenses 通常用于进行时) to pretend to be ill/sick when in fact you are not, especially to avoid work 装病偷懒I don't think there's anything wrong with hershe's just swinging the lead. 我认为她没有什么病,只不过是在装病偷懒而已。 ORIGIN The lead was a weight at the bottom of a line that sailors used to measure how deep water was when the ship was near land. 'Swinging the lead' was thought to be an easy task, and came to mean avoiding hard work. * lead 是船靠近陆地时水手测量水深用的水铊。swinging the lead 被认为是件轻松的工作,逐渐变成 “逃避干重活” 的意思。
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