| 例句 |
kicks aroundverbpresent tense third-person singular of kick around to give serious and careful thought tothe board spent the afternoon kicking around the feasibility of opening an overseas office chews over, cogitates, considers, contemplates, debates, deliberates, entertains, eyes, meditates, mulls (over), perpends, ponders, pores (over), questions, revolves, ruminates, studies, thinks (about or over), turns, weighs, wrestles (with) muses (upon), reflects (on or upon), reminiscesanalyzes, explores, reviewsconcludes, reasonssecond-guesses, speculates (about)broods (about or over), dwells (on or upon), fixates (on or upon), frets (about or over), obsesses (about or over)believes, conceives, opinesabsorbs, assimilates, digests, drinks (in) beats one's brains out (about), chews on, cudgels one's brains (about), looks at disregards, ignores, overlooks, slightsdismisses, pooh-poohs(also poohs), rejects to spend time in aimless activityI really can't do much but kick around at work until I get the rest of the submissions doodles, fiddles (around), fools around, fribbles, goofs (around), hangs about(British), messes around, monkeys (around), plays, potters (around), putters (around), trifles dallies, dawdles, dillydallies, hangs (around or out), idles, loafs, lolls, loungesclowns (around), horses arounddiddles (with), tinkers buckles (down), knuckles down, sets (to), settles (down) to spend time doing nothingspent the afternoon kicking around, while his wife bought out the mall bums, chills, dallies, dawdles, dillydallies, drones, footles, goofs (off), hacks (around), hangs about(British), hangs (around or out), idles, kicks back, lazes, lazies, loafs, lolls, lounges, vegges out(or veges out) fiddles (around), fools, messes, monkeys, mucks, piddles, plays, potters (around), putters (around), triflesdozes, estivates(also aestivates), hibernateslags, lingers, loiters, pokes, relaxes, rests, tarriesambles, moseys, saunters, strolls, swansfurloughs, goldbricks, malingers, truants kills time, twiddles one's thumbs drudges, grinds, grubs, humps, hustles, labors, moils, pegs, plods, plows, plugs, slaves, sweats, toils, travails, worksapplies, buckles (down)exerts, puts out to move about from place to place aimlesslyafter spending a year in Europe kicking around, the backpacker was ready to return home bats, cruises, drifts, floats, gads (about), gallivants(also galavants), knocks (about), maunders, meanders, mooches, rambles, ranges, roams, roves, traipses, wanders ambles, saunters, strollsdawdles, mopesgypsies, hobos, tramps, vagabondsmills (about or around)straggles, strays to inflict physical or emotional harm uponchildren who were raised by an alcoholic father who regularly kicked them around abuses, brutalizes, bullies, ill-treats, ill-uses, maltreats, manhandles, messes over(slang), mishandles, mistreats, misuses molests, outrages, violatesharasses, harms, hurts, injures, oppresses, persecutes, torments, torturesburns, sandbags, victimizes, wrongsbeats (up), messes (up), roughs (up), works (over) takes apart cares (for), cherishes, fosters, nurturesbabies, caters (to), coddles, favors, gratifies, humors, indulges, mollycoddles, pampers, spoils |