prevarication
英
美
网络 支吾搪塞; 搪塞; 托辞性的; 说谎; 支支吾吾
BNC.32909 / COCA.33706
英英释义
noun
- the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
- intentionally vague or ambiguous
- a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
双语例句
- Prevarication couched in pious homilies may no longer suffice.
表述在虔诚的布道中的支吾可能不再足够。 - All my attempts to question the authorities on the subject were met by evasion and prevarication.
我就这个问题质问权威的一切努力均被回避和搪塞。 - In the actual operation of the project, a large number statements, documents and the lack of effective management of raw data, cross-linking business processes will prevarication and management is not in place, and so on.
各个职能部门间业务流程互相交叉，在工程实际运作中，大量报表、证件及原始资料缺乏有效管理，业务流程交叉联系会出现推诿及管理不到位等情况。 - The prevarication in Rome had added to the sense of crisis gripping the eurozone over the sovereign debt levels of a widening circle of Member States.
罗马方面的推诿加重了困扰欧元区的危机感，人们担心越来越多的成员国主权债务水平过高。 - Through the reorganization of market structure, we separate the natural monopoly industries from the competitive operations; through asymmetric regulation, we support the new competitive powers; through prevarication, we encourage the private capital to enter the industry of monopoly.
通过市场结构重组，将垄断性产业的自然垄断性业务和竞争性业务分离；通过不对称管制扶持新的竞争力量；通过民营化，促使民间资本进入垄断性产业。 - As for Iran's nuclear programme, the president's outstretched hand has been greeted with more prevarication in Tehran.
至于伊朗的核计划，奥巴马伸出的手只是换来德黑兰更多的搪塞。 - This is the message I am bearing, a message I believe cannot be subject to any prevarication or delay.
这就是我带来的信息。我认为，这个信息不能受到任何的搪塞和拖延。 - Behind the paralysis in Washington and prevarication in Berlin lies a troubling thought.
在华盛顿政治瘫痪和柏林犹豫不决的背后，隐藏着一种令人不安的想法。 - But prevarication over the construction of new pipelines has both undermined those threats and exasperated the Chinese.
另一方面，其拖延修建新管道一举不仅冲淡了威胁的效力更激怒了中国方面。 - Prevarication is one of the techniques the businessman prefers to employ.
搪塞是这个商人喜欢使用的技巧之一。