with obj.
1- avoid or neglect (a duty or responsibility)逃避（义务, 责任）：
I do not shirk any responsibility in this matter
在这件事上, 我不逃避任何责任
no obj. she is neither shirking nor lying她既不在推诿, 也不在说谎。
1.1
- no obj. [usu. with negative](shirk from) be unwilling to do (something difficult)逃避做（难事）, 不愿做（难事）：
we will not shirk from closing a school if the evidence should justify it.
如有事实证明关闭一所学校是正确的, 那我们就不会退脱。
- archaic a person who shirks〈古〉逃避责任（或义务）者。
派生词
shirker
noun词源
mid 17th cent. （in the sense 'practise fraud or trickery'）： from obsolete shirk 'sponger', perhaps from German Schurke 'scoundrel'.