shrugs

英 [ʃrʌɡz]

美 [ʃrʌɡz]

v.  耸肩(表示不知道或不在乎)
n.  耸肩; 女式短茄克衫或前开襟毛线衫
shrug的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 耸肩(表示不感兴趣、不知道或不在乎)
  If youshrug, you raise your shoulders to show that you are not interested in something or that you do not know or care about something.
  1. I shrugged, as if to say, 'Why not?'...
     我耸了耸肩，仿佛在说，“为什么不?”
  2. The man shrugged his shoulders.
     那男子耸了耸肩。
  3. Shrugis also a noun.
     
  4. 'I suppose so,' said Anna with a shrug.
     “我想是吧，”安娜耸了耸肩说道。

双语例句

• He shrugs amiably, couldn't be less concerned. Don't remember, he says.
  他和蔼地耸耸肩，漫不经心地说：不记得了。
• She shrugs and walks away.
  她耸了耸肩，走了。
• A woman breastfeeding her 3-year-old son is the cover photo of this week's Time magazine for a story on attachment parenting, and reactions ranged from applause to cringing to shrugs.
  本周《时代》杂志的封面照片是一位正在给3岁的儿子喂母乳的女性，讲述了有关亲密育儿法的故事。封面引发强烈反响，有人击掌叫好，也有人极为反感。
• "Libyans expect to work behind a desk in air-conditioning, not in a hot oven," shrugs a weary customer.
  “利比亚人想要在有空调的办公桌上工作，而不是在炙热的烤箱边工作，”一位不耐烦的顾客耸耸肩说道。
• Mr Lewis shrugs off the view that any credit squeeze-induced slowdown in the US would affect Asia.
  有人认为，美国一旦出现信贷紧缩诱发的经济衰退，会对亚洲造成影响。
• The project leader shrugs and says "Oh I thought you weren't that interested anyway." You know deep down this is just a lie to escape from the fact that they stopped involving you.
  这个项目的领导人耸耸肩说：“哦，我认为反正你不会感兴趣”，内心深处，你知道这是一条谎言，来逃避他们不再纳入你的事实。
• Lin shrugs and simply says, "I am not really too worried about proving anything to anybody."
  对此林书豪只是耸耸肩说，“我并不太在意向任何人证明什么”
• He says," Jeez, honey,'Betty Sue'was the name of the horse I bet on. "She shrugs and walks away.
  他说，“亲爱的，可爱的苏是一匹马的名字，我发誓。”她老婆耸耸肩走了。
• But Mr Nkrumah shrugs that even if Mr Obama is elected president, he will be powerless to implement progressive policies because the corporate power structure will not let him.
  但恩克鲁玛则对此耸耸肩&即使奥巴马当选美国总统，他仍无力贯彻开明激进的政策，因为整个共同体的权力结构不会允许他这样做。
• He knew that the southern races communicated with each other in the language of pantomime, and was mortified to find her shrugs and smiles so unintelligible.
  他知道南欧人常用手语相互交谈，而现在他却无法理解她的耸肩与微笑，感到十分难堪。