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.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。

英英释义

noun

• stalling or delaying especially by refusing to answer questions or cooperate

双语例句

• 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。
• Or rather I'm slogging it out, and my bank, First Direct, is doing some admirable slogging on my behalf, but the airline is stonewalling.
  更确切地说，是我在苦苦努力，我的银行FirstDirect正代表我做着一些令人钦佩的努力工作，但这家航空公司却在从中作梗。
• 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。
• That is where we stand now-NV is simply stonewalling everyone and the costs are adding up.
  这是我们现在的立场-NV公司只不过是拖延大家的成本加入了。
• Through the dinner, I was stonewalling.
  吃饭的过程中，我始终很谨慎。
• But both of them are stonewalling-they refuse to answer any questions at all.
  但是，这两人都拒绝回答任何问题，企图蒙混过去。
• 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。
• Are you stonewalling the general'cause it's good For the team here, or are you protecting the woman Who popped you out lo these many years ago, huh?
  你这么搪塞将军是为了我们这群人好了还是为了保护那个N年前一脚把你蹬开的女人的，哈？
• 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。
• 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。