cop-out
英 [ˈkɒp aʊt]
美 [ˈkɑːp aʊt]
n. 逃避(或躲避)的方法; (不做某事的)借口
复数：cop-outs
牛津词典
noun
- 逃避（或躲避）的方法；（不做某事的）借口
a way of avoiding doing sth that you should do, or an excuse for not doing it- Not turning up was just a cop-out.
不露面只不过是在逃避而已。
- Not turning up was just a cop-out.
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 逃避（或躲避）的方法
If you refer to something as acop-out, you think that it is a way for someone to avoid doing something that they should do.- To decline to vote is a cop-out...
拒绝投票就是一种逃避。 - The film's ending is an unsatisfactory cop-out.
电影回避式的结局让人不满。
- To decline to vote is a cop-out...
双语例句
- That's just a cop-out. Just be brave and tell the truth.
那只是借口，勇敢一点实话实说。 - He said: It's a cop-out if you ask me.
他说：这是一个认罪，如果你问我。 - It's easy to adopt either of these analyses, but perhaps each is a bit of a cop-out.
我们可以很容易地从这些分析中找到自己认可的一种，但也许每一种分析都有一点站不住脚。 - Telling him you're ill sounds like a cop-out to me.
跟他说你病了在我扣起来像是借口。 - Alternative energy sounds like a cop-out.
替代能源听起来像个幌子。 - Wu: So the cop-out way of naming is deliberately made.
巫：所以这种虚晃一枪式的起名方法是有意为之的。 - Be honest and give a real answer and not a cop-out one.
请诚实回答不要逃避。 - Instead of camping they stayed in a hotel; what a cop-out!
们没有去野营，而是呆在旅店里；放弃了多可惜啊！ - In the end the G20 avoided public disagreement only by backing away from binding goals and resorting to a familiar cop-out: punting the issue to the International Monetary Fund.
最终G20之所以没有产生公开分歧，一是因为绕开了具有约束力的目标，二是因为又使出了惯用的逃避手段&把问题踢给了国际货币基金组织（IMF）。 - While we usually think of it as a cop-out, a way for someone to spare our feelings, the reality is that it is actually true.
通常我们认为这种说法是一种逃避，也是一种舒缓我们感受的方式，而事实上这说法确实是对的。