| 釋義 |
推三阻四推三推四tuī sān zǔ sìdecline with all sorts of excuses; give the runaround; hum and haw; make all sorts of excuses
? 江菊霞插上來打斷他的話：“不要再推三推四的了，慕韓老兄。”(周而復《上海的早晨》Ⅰ—556) Jiang Juxia stepped in and interrupted him: “Don’t keep trying to back out,Muhan.”/你不要推三推四的，這點忙你得幫，延年有困難，你不幫忙誰幫忙？ (周而復《上海的早晨》 Ⅰ —118)Don’t hum and haw,this is a time when you can't refuse your help. Yannian's in difficulties and if you don’t help him out who will?/如今白告訴去，那邊太太再～的，……(《紅樓夢》1003) If instead of that we just report it,Lady Xing may make excuses in order to shift the responsibility.
? 奶奶一直反對湯阿英出去開什么會參加什么活動的，剛才阿英自己推三推四，一方面也是怕奶奶講話。(周而復《上海的早晨》Ⅰ—534) Granny had always been against Aying going out to meetings and taking part in activities and so on,and one of the reasons why Aying had tried to refuse just now was because she was afraid of Granny’s tongue. 推三阻四tuī sān zǔ sì用種種借口推托、阻攔。give the run around, decline with all sorts of excuses, fob sb. off with excuse |