1NOT KNOWDON'T CAREto raise and then lower your shoulders in order to show that you do not know something or do not care about something 耸(肩)〔表示不知道或不在乎〕
I just shrugged my shoulders and ignored him.
我只是耸耸肩,没有理睬他。
Melanie shrugged and walked away.
梅拉妮耸耸肩走开了。
2shrug something ↔ offphrasal verbphr vDON'T CAREIGNOREto treat something as unimportant and not worry about it 对…满不在乎,对…不屑一顾
We can’t just shrug these objections off.
我们不能不理会这些反对意见呀。
Examples from the Corpus
shrug off• I offered my thanks to Oliver, and even suggested some debtrestructuring by way of gratitude, but he just shrugged it off.• It was a bad cut, but he'd shrugged it off.• Miguel said, shrugging it off.• When they do, they're tough enough to shrug it off.• Floyd Johnson tried to pull Varney back, but Varney shrugged him off and looked ready to lunge.• She giggled, and shrugged Hugh off, as he tried to plant a kiss, and nip her arms.• Spidershrugged it off reluctantly, his tonestoic.• She felt his hand on her arm and tried to shrug it off, tried to keep moving.
shrugged ... shoulders• Jimmy looked enquiringly at him and Pete just shrugged his shoulders.• He shrugged his shoulders and it fell down his arms.• Most of his contemporaries would have shrugged their shoulders and let it remain as part of the natural order of things.• He shrugged his shoulders and waited for her to clarify her question.• She raised her eyebrows and shrugged her shoulders at the chil-dren.• Clarence raised his head, looked at her, and shrugged his shoulders helplessly.• She looked at her sister, who shrugged her shoulders noncommittally.• She shrugged up her shoulders, obviously just enjoying this discussion no end.
shrug2 noun [countableC]
1[usually singular]HBH a movement of your shoulders upwards and then downwards again that you make to show that you do not know something or do not care about something 耸肩
with a shrug• Ewen came, with a shrug and a smile and a lifted eyebrow, and the two detectives close behind him.• People once accepted government greed and graftwith a shrug of resignation.• Appeals to the crowd for a telephone met with shrugs.• His presscampaign was met with a shrug of the shoulders.• He broke off with a shrug.• Stockdale recalls his vice- presidential run with a shrug.• The stockmarketroars with confidence and pays its capital-gains taxes with a shrug.• Polly stared after him, then, with a shrug, went into the tiny shower-room.