cop-out

基本解釋

No, that is a cop-out. Even at the front killing's the thing…
不行，這只是逃避。即使在前線殺人這樣的事。
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It's easy to adopt either of these analyses, but perhaps each is a bit of a cop-out.
我們可以很容易地從這些分析中找到自己認(rèn)可的一種，但也許每一種分析都有一點(diǎn)站不住腳。
So I junked the old cop-out about waiting until I was in a relationship to come clean, and one by one I sat down with friends, family and co-workers and let them know the real story about me.
我拋棄了原來那個(gè)等建立穩(wěn)定的關(guān)系再向大家公開的念頭，一個(gè)個(gè)地找朋友、家人、同事坐下來談話，告訴他們真實(shí)的自己。

As a substitute for an account of what happened, it is a cop-out.
ECONOMIST: The Ottoman empire
Occasionally, however, it results in an obvious cop-out, as when Rudy Giuliani rather than Osama bin Laden was chosen for 2001.
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Allowing selection within mixed-ability schools is what used to be called a cop-out, and is now known as the third way.
ECONOMIST: Education

If you refer to something as a cop-out, you think that it is a way for someone to avoid doing something that they should do.