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

• Through the dinner, I was stonewalling.
  吃饭的过程中，我始终很谨慎。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• "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”。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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）