1Spar with an imaginary opponent as a form of training.
（与假想对手）空拳攻防练习，假交手
train for agility with fast shadow-boxing
they shadow-boxed a bit to warm up
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As we do not yet know the actual timing and circumstances of the election, speculation at the moment is basically shadow-boxing.
Duran paid him no mind and continued to shadow box.
Things are going to go wrong on the first day, but it is like shadow-boxing: it is not going to be the real fight.
At least Richardson has had a chance to race through part of this summer, where all the athletes have seemed to be shadow-boxing their way to the Olympics.
She senses that the characters and the stories are more real to Howard than anyone realizes; after all, this is a man who will shadow box his way down the street, working out details and dialogue for his next yarn.
And boxing legend Muhammad Ali, who rarely does adverts, promotes the drink by shadow-boxing with inner-city children in Miami.
In other words, the on-screen Italian American has not only had to shadow box with his own persona, but with other ethnically and racially marginalized groups.
‘You have to go into games and simply look to shadow box with the other guy, be competitive and hope to get a few breaks,’ Predators coach Barry Trotz says.
Cheap mirrors reflect distorted amusement-park images of fighters who shadow-box before them.
When they were done, Hearns didn't do anything else but loosen up and shadow box.
The words sound very outspoken and authoritative, but are really shadow-boxing: nobody who is sufficiently civilised in approach to be reading such a book is likely to disagree with them.
He adopted a fighting stance and shadow-boxed.
There had been considerable speculation in advance one or both sides would engage in a form of shadow-boxing, but in the event it turned out to be a competitive and entertaining game.
Some of the fighters who were often ranked higher than Frazier lost their titles to fighters who on their best day would be honored to pay their way into the gym just to see him shadow box.
He has a few rounds of shadow-boxing with Ahriman, recites some metaphysical mumbo-jumbo, and that's it.
For uninitiated readers, it must seem like shadow-boxing.
Greer scorns the spectacle of ‘a modern Hamlet bumbling and dithering around the stage, shadow-boxing with his own personality, especially when the part is played in a cinematic inward-turning way.’
Resentment of foreign influence encouraged the growth of a clandestine society called ‘Fists of Righteous Harmony’, known to Europeans as Boxers from its Chinese name and practice of ritual shadow-boxing.
The emblem of the Beijing Olympics, resembling a five-pointed star in the colours of the Olympic rings, represents a person doing traditional shadow-boxing (tai chi).
This man has been seen stripping down to his underwear and shadow-boxing all in the name of sports elitism.
1.1Make a show of tackling a problem or opponent while avoiding any direct engagement.
a fortnight of political shadow-boxing
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Only last month, in the Prime Minister's "seminal" speech about foreign relations, he was still shadow-boxing with the past.