stonewalling

1. 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 someone stonewalls, 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。

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. 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？
3. 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。
4. 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。
5. Both, however, respond to their lack of a plan in their traditional fashion: Russia, with stonewalling; the west, with empty rhetoric.
   然而，对于自己缺乏计划这一点，双方却都采用了各自传统的做法：俄罗斯是阻碍议程；西方则是发表空洞的言辞。
6. 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。
7. 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。
8. In her isolated position, the director was unable to respond dispassionately enough to the criticism heaped on her by others. Instead, she seems to have lapsed into defensive stonewalling.
   在这样一种孤立的境地里，泰穆尔无法足够冷静地面对外界对她的大量批评，而似乎躲进了一个自我防御的堡垒。
9. 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。
10. 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。
11. 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。
12. There's a whole set of other people who believe that, by being aggressive and stonewalling, you'll get a better political deal.
    有很多其他人认为，好斗一些、横加阻挠会带来条件更优厚的政治交易。
13. "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”。
14. 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）
15. 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。
16. Through the dinner, I was stonewalling.
    吃饭的过程中，我始终很谨慎。
17. 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。
18. The interviewer accused the Minister of stonewalling on the issue of tax increases.
    采访者指责部长在增税问题上闭口不谈。
19. 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；

noun

1. stalling or delaying especially by refusing to answer questions or cooperate