stonewalled

英 [ˈstəʊnwɔːld]

美 [ˈstoʊnwɔːld]

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的过去分词和过去式

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。

双语例句

• I tried to find out who should be held responsible for the accident, but he stonewalled me.
  我试图去探寻谁应该对这件事情负责，但是他故意阻挠我。
• I sold everything I owned to come looking for Thassarian, only to be stonewalled by the local bureaucracy.
  我卖掉了全部家当去寻找Thassarian，当地的官僚却严密的封锁了消息。
• Donkeys outnumber cars in this landscape of tiny stonewalled fields.
  在这片以石墙隔出巴掌大的农田的乡村，驴子比汽车还多。
• Last time, Chinese officials are said largely to have stonewalled overseas regulators.
  上一次，中国官员据悉基本上把外国监管者拒之门外。