stonewalling

基本解釋

But both of them are stonewalling - they refuse to answer any questions at all.
但是，這兩人都拒絕回答任何問題，企圖蒙混過去。
Gates and company were defiant, to the point of stonewalling regulators and refusing to take the charges seriously.
蓋茨和公司目中無人，到了阻礙監(jiān)管機構(gòu)并且拒絕認(rèn)真對待指控的地步。
Iran and Syria, though members of the NPT, are stonewalling inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN’s nuclear guardian, over mounting evidence of clandestine nuclear work.
伊朗和敘利亞，盡管是核不擴散條約國，阻撓國際原子能機構(gòu)，聯(lián)合國的和核監(jiān)查機構(gòu)的監(jiān)察員監(jiān)查越來越多關(guān)于秘密核活動的證據(jù)。

He was hampered by the protracted obstruction and stonewalling of the President and his team.
FORBES: Fact and Comment
The passage of time is irrelevant when considering the stonewalling by banks and insurers.
ECONOMIST: Letters
He was asked for this information by several members of the U.S. Senate, and he was stonewalling.
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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.
stonewalling