runaround

1. LL: Li Hua, are you giving me the runaround?
   看你说的，我怎么是在找借口呢？我看你有点多疑吧。
2. Residents claim they were given the runaround by the local council, from whom they had no help at all.
   居民指出当地委员会对他们敷衍了事，没有提供任何帮助。
3. I asked him to lend me some money, but I got nothing except the runaround.
   我跟他借钱，他只是拿话搪塞却分文未借。
4. When I asked about the money she gave me the runaround.
   我问她钱的事时，她就借故搪塞。
5. Nemanja Vidic has been one of the best players in the Premier League this year and Torres gave him a little bit of a runaround.
   维迪奇可以算是英超最好的后卫之一了，但托雷斯照样能把他耍的团团转。
6. He had thought there was nothing wrong with their marriage, but then he opened some of her letters while she was away and discovered that she'd been giving him the runaround.
   他认为他们的婚姻无懈可击，可是等她走后，他打开了她的一些信件，发现她一直都在欺骗他。
7. I've come to know the definite answer this time, not the runaround again.
   希望这次你能给我个确切的答复，别再拿话搪塞我了。
8. Don't give us the runaround we'd just like to know whether you agree or not
   别拿话儿搪塞我们。我们只想知道你到底是同意不是不同意
9. Under multilateral trade system, how to harmonize the relationship between environmental protection and trade liberalization is a new issue in international trade. GATT rules and its dispute settlement practices usually runaround the issue.
   在多边贸易体制中如何实现环境保护与贸易自由的协调发展，这是一个国际贸易新问题，GATT规则及其争端解决实践对此问题基本上持回避、谨慎的态度。
10. The rebuilding of the human spirit of medicine is the urgent question that we cannot runaround and must answer in the medicine circle.
    重塑医学人文精神是一个无法回避而又必须作出回答的紧迫问题。

n.

give sb the runaround

• 隐瞒；搪塞；草草打发
  to treat sb badly by not telling them the truth, or by not giving them the help or the information they need, and sending them somewhere else