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(第三人稱單數簡單現在時，現在分詞，一般過去時及過去分詞)

1. (過時) 匆忙的處理事情；以敷衍的方式來面對
   • 1846, E.A. Poe, The literati of New York, no. 1

     The bad points of the work are slurred over and the good ones brought out into the best light, all this through a feeling akin to that which makes it unpleasant to speak ill of one to one's face.

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   • 1918, Archibald McKellar MacMechan, The Cambridge History of American Literature, book 2 chapter 10

     After his college days comes an episode which his biographers seem inclined to slur over, perhaps from a false sense of the dignity of biography, and that is the two years, from 25 April, 1841, to May, 1843, which Thoreau spent under Emerson’s roof.

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