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Change log entry 70458
Processed by: goldyn_chyld (2020-08-25 06:05:16 GMT)
Comment: << review queue entry 66771 - submitted by 'richwarm' >>
1) 擦边球 is a *noun* according to most sources.
Dicts all say it's a noun except for K and Wikt, who both appear to have copied our definition.

2) table tennis - K LA GF

3) 打擦边球 skirt around the issue
see LA
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擦边球 (危险的事情) things that are risky

“We will try our best to cut corners to make this show happen.”
(我们会尽量打擦边球来做这件事。)

J
Academic research suggests that similar legislation in America has led auditors to cut corners and take risks.
学术研究表明美国相类似的法条会让审计师们去冒险打擦边球。

Residential property wall hanging search advertising hit" edge ball" to mislead buyers?
小区楼盘围墙挂名店广告打"擦边球"误导买家?

But it skated around the code-of-conduct issue, recommending only that the hedge-fund industry should strengthen today's best practice.
但是它和具体的规则打了个擦边球,只是认为对冲基金产业应该采用最好惯例。

TP
「除非你想在大陸出版開放時缺席,否則現在一定要進入,」以變形蟲自比的臺灣麥克公司總經理黃長發表示。「儘管大陸法令尚未開放,其實可以做的已經不少了,」許鐘榮也說。或許目前既不合法,又未必獲利,但國際出版業者,無不以遊走法令邊緣的擦邊球方式進入,取得一定經驗,為五年後的開放做好準備。
According to Thomas Huang, president of Taiwan MAC Educational (TME) and a self-proclaimed cultural chameleon, "You've got to be in China now, unless you want to miss out on the liberalization of the Chinese publishing industry." Hsu Chung-jung adds: "You can still do a great deal, even though China hasn't yet loosened up its laws." Although investing in China may not be strictly legal and profits are uncertain, every international publisher is skirting the fringes of the law to enter the China market. These publishers take the view that their efforts are providing them with experience in the China market and are preparing them for the liberalized market to come.
Diff:
- 擦邊球 擦边球 [ca1 bian1 qiu2] /lit. to hit a ball or shuttlecock on the sideline/fig. to skirt the line legally or morally/
+ 擦邊球 擦边球 [ca1 bian1 qiu2] /(table tennis) edge ball/(fig.) actions that are technically legal but perhaps not respectable/
+ 打擦邊球 打擦边球 [da3 ca1 bian1 qiu2] /to bend the rules/to skirt around the issue/
By MDBG 2024
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