| 释义 |
●ˌswing the ˈlead (old-fashioned, BrE, informal) (usually used in the progressive tenses 通常用于进行时) pretend to be ill/sick when you are not, especially to avoid work 装病（尤指为逃避工作）◆I don’t think there’s anything wrong with her — she’s just swinging the lead.我想她没什么不舒服的，她只是为了逃避工作。 ORIGIN The lead (pronounced /led/) may refer to a weight at the bottom of a line that sailors used to measure how deep the water was. Swinging the lead was possibly considered an easy job, and so came to mean avoiding hard work. * lead （读作 /led/）或许指系在绳子底部的重砣，旧时船员用此来测量水深。swinging the lead （摆水砣）可能被认为是一件轻松的差事，后用来指逃避重活。 |