stonewalling
英 [ˈstəʊnwɔːlɪŋ]
美 [ˈstoʊnwɔːlɪŋ]
v. 防守挡击(政治上指通过沉默或冗长发言等手段阻碍议事或拖延决议)
stonewall的现在分词
COCA.39873
柯林斯词典
- VERB (为隐瞒或逃避某事而)暂不作决定,迟迟不作答复,态度骑墙
If you say that someonestonewalls, you disapprove of them because they delay giving a clear answer or making a clear decision, often because there is something that they want to hide or avoid doing.- The administration is just stonewalling in an attempt to hide their political embarrassment...
政府只是在模棱两可地拖延时间,企图掩盖自己的政治窘态。 - He did his best this week to stonewall questions and to block even the most modest proposals.
他这周竭力避免作出明确答复,甚至连一些最温和的建议都企图阻拦。
- The administration is just stonewalling in an attempt to hide their political embarrassment...
英英释义
noun
- stalling or delaying especially by refusing to answer questions or cooperate
双语例句
- Through the dinner, I was stonewalling.
吃饭的过程中,我始终很谨慎。 - North Vietnamese stonewalling doomed Cambodia, however, to prolonged agony.
然而北越人的拖延战术却使柬埔寨惨遭长期的磨难。 - Stonewalling for time in order to close the missile gap ( James Reston)
拖延时间以弥补导弹方面的差距(詹姆斯赖斯顿) - If Nixon had wanted to adopted a stonewalling strategy on the summit he should not have let me go to moscow.
如果尼克松要在最高级会谈问题上采取拖延策略,他本不应该派我到莫斯科去。 - When Roger gave a dead-pen, stonewalling reply, neither the member nor any of the aircraft spokesman followed witn a subsidiary.
罗杰不动声色地作了个敷衍的答复后,无论这位议员本人以及他的航空发言人都没有再补充提问。 - NV still insists on stonewalling and spinning because the cost of owning up to the problem could very well sink the company.
NV还在坚持搪塞和周旋这个事件,因为承认这个问题要付出的代价很可能让公司不得翻身。 - "Are you failing to co-operate with other investigators as well," asked Mr Waxman, accusing Mr Hayward of "stonewalling".
“你面对其它调查人员也这样不予合作吗?”韦克斯曼问道,他指责唐熙华是在“拖延时间”。 - But Russian museums are now stonewalling, saying they plan to keep the treasure as reparation for Germany's destruction of Soviet cities during the war.
俄罗斯的博物馆依然没有归还的意思,他们表示,宝藏将会用于补偿二战期间德国对前苏联城市的破坏。 - The communication media were mainly stonewalling, dak wall, temple wall, house wall, hall wall and bridge, pavilion, leaf, tree, bamboo and the like.
传播媒体主要有石壁、驿壁、寺壁、屋壁和厅壁及桥、亭、叶、树、竹等; - After years of stonewalling, Iran's centrifuge answers will be an indication of whether it will now co-operate with inspectors, though it could stop at any point.
几年来,伊朗都拒绝做出解释,现在它对于其离心机的解释将会证明它是否会与检查人员合作,虽然它可以随时中止这种合作。