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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• "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”。
• 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；
• 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）