stonewalled
v.
(用冗长发言或拒绝回答问题等)拖延[阻碍]议事,设置障碍( stonewall的过去式和过去分词 );
拒绝执行命令,拒绝服从命令;
(板球中)打守势球,小心地打慢球;
例句:
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He stonewalled against the motion.
他以冗长的演说阻挠了那项动议的通过。
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Touch on anything in his personal life and you'll be stonewalled.
一旦触及任何关于他私生活的事,你就得小心了.
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Nixon stonewalled the Watergate investigation.
尼克松阻碍水门事件的调查.
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But all the companies have stonewalled our claims.
来自THETIMES
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When the senators later tried to get more information from Acop, he stonewalled.
来自CNN
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When he stonewalled, with a recitation of innocuous facts, they took him into a basement room and stripped him naked.
来自NEWYORKER