In the past employees who stayed home had to overcome the suspicion that they were bunking off.

过去，呆在家里的员工必须克服他们偷懒的嫌疑。

One useful feature of public holidays is that workers worry less about bunking off if everyone else does the same.

公共假期的一个有益特点是如果其他所有人都做一样的工作，那么他们就不用太担心早退的影响。

Yes, in British English we usually say 'skive' or 'skive off' or 'bunk off'

是的，在英式英语中，我们通常说“skive”或者“skive off”或者“bunk off”。

My parents still joke about the time I wrote absence notes for myself after bunking off school.

我的父母仍然开玩笑说我放学后为自己写缺勤记录的时间。

He didn't belong behind a desk, and at Sunderland Poly, where he took a teaching degree in 1983, he bunked off lectures to go climbing.

他不是那种坐办公室的料，虽然1983年他在桑德兰理工学院取得了教育学学位，但随后丢掉讲师之职去登山了。