单词through-the-motions
He had not taken a single note all semester; he had not even gone through the motions of "flipping" the textbook pages.
杰克坐在我旁边，整整一学期就没见他记过笔记，甚至连一目十行地“翻”书都没见他翻过。
Go through the motions To do something in a mechanical manner indicative of a lack of interest or involvement.
做…姿态：机械地做某事，显示出缺乏兴趣或投入语源。
Jane was angry because she couldn"t go out, and when her mother told her to clean the window she just went through the motions.
简因不能外出而生气，所以当她母亲叫她擦窗户时，她就敷衍了事。
All of this can only bring the popular phrase officialdom thought "false earnestness and carry through the motions. "
这一切，只能让人想过官场上流行的一句话“认认真真地作假，扎扎实实地走过场”。
They were hesitant to express their ideas and often seemed to be going through the motions.
他们在表达自己观点的时候常常像挤牙膏一样犹犹豫豫。
But shooting was just somewhere on the list of shortcomings. The Rockets went through the motions slowly until Van Gundy benched everyone.
但是投篮糟糕只不过是火箭队的问题之一，火箭队的球员进入状态太慢了，范甘迪索性把所有首发都换了下来坐板凳。
I"m convinced the new method won"t work but I"ll still have to go through the motions .
我深信这个新方法起不了什么作用，但仍还得走过场。
He caught my eye and went through the motions of sympathetically clapping . . .
他被我看到了，于是做出赞同的姿态鼓几下掌……
And he went through the motions of thrashing an imaginary boy -- pummelling the air, and kicking and gouging.
于是他拳打脚踢，平空乱舞一通，仿佛正在打那个孩子，挖他的眼睛。
But when he met his future wife Susan, she showed him that just going through the motions of faith was not enough.
但是当他遇到他未来的妻子苏珊时，她告诉他仅仅情感上感觉到的信仰是不够的。