stonewalling

单词stonewalling

基本解释

n.: (板球的)慎打；〈英〉阻碍议事；筑石墙
v.: “stonewall”的现在分词
网络: 拖延和无视；筑墙；作梗

英汉解释

• 拖延;很谨慎;不动声色地

• 筑石墙;石墙

• 〔英国〕阻碍议事

• (板球的)慎打

例句

• Gates and company were defiant, to the point of stonewalling regulators and refusing to take the charges seriously.

  盖茨和公司目中无人，到了阻碍监管机构并且拒绝认真对待指控的地步。

• When Roger gave a dead-pen, stonewalling reply, neither the member nor any of the aircraft spokesman followed with 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。

• Both Mr Geithner and the White House deny the rumours, but the constant battle with a stonewalling opposition has surely taken a toll.

  而无论是盖特纳本人还是白宫均否认了该谣言，但是不断与反对意见的斗争想必确实带来了一定的损害。

• It may mean employees are afraid to offer up anything but good news , even if it means stonewalling .

  这可能意味着，员工报喜不报忧，即便遇到大问题。

• We discover a character willing to talk about anything, without stonewalling or taboos, without censoring himself or being self-conscious.

  我们发现一个特点，愿意谈什么，没有设置或禁忌，没有删自己或自我意识。

• 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。

• Even so, Moscow"s relative openness about the suspects was a departure from its past standard of stonewalling about spies.

  即便如此，俄罗斯对这些嫌疑人态度的相对坦诚，还是不同于它过去在间谍问题上打太极的一贯做法。

• That leaves management unprepared to deal with media questioning and conveys an image of stonewalling and indifference.

  管理层在面对媒体质询时准备不足，因此会给人一种推诿搪塞和冷漠无情的印像。

• After years of ignored freedom-of-information requests and stonewalling, all it took was disclosure to change the debate.

  在信息自由请求和种种壁垒对峙多年之后，披露信息改变了一切局势。