prevaricate

美 [prɪˈværɪkeɪt]英 [prɪˈværɪkeɪt]
  • v.推诿;闪烁其词;支吾搪塞;吞吞吐吐

派生词: prevarication n. 过去式: prevaricated 现在分词: prevaricating 过去分词: prevaricated 第三人称单数: prevaricates

prevaricateprevaricate

verb

formal支吾搪塞;闪烁其词;吞吞吐吐
to avoid giving a direct answer to a question in order to hide the truth

Stop prevaricating and come to the point.

别吞吞吐吐的,有话快说吧。

beat about the bush

prevaricate

频次

  • 1
    VERB 支吾;搪塞;推诿;闪烁其词
    If you prevaricate, you avoid giving a direct answer or making a firm decision.

    British ministers continued to prevaricate.

    英国的大臣们仍然闪烁其词。

  • After months of prevarication, the political decision had at last been made.

    在推诿了几个月后,终于做出了政治决定。

verb

1
be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
Synonym: beat around the bush equivocate tergiversate palter

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  1. Indian governments generally resist reform , prevaricate over investing in infrastructure and - sentimental as they are about a non-existent ideal of rural Indian life - refuse to cater for the tens of millions of rural migrants flooding into the cities .

    印度政府则通常抵制改革,对基础设施投资支吾搪塞,同时对于一种根本不存在的印度式田园生活理想感情用事印度政府还拒绝迎合涌入城市的数千万农村移民。

  2. A few years ago , the market also due to product quality issues , merchants and manufacturers mutual prevaricating , consumer rights miserable situation .

    前几年,市场上也曾出现因商品质量问题,商家与厂家相互推诿,消费者维权苦不堪言的情况。

  3. Stop prevaricating and come to the point .

    别吞吞吐吐的,有话快说吧。

  4. British ministers continued to prevaricate .

    英国的大臣们仍然闪烁其词。

  5. Didn 't prevaricate but answered forthrightly and honestly .

    毫不欺骗而是坦言相告。

  6. Jane is prevaricating over whether to buy a new house .

    简在是否买新房子上含糊其词。

  7. Tell us exactly what happened and do not prevaricate .

    有什麽就原原本本地告诉我们吧,别躲躲闪闪的。

  8. Around this figure the West , for four decades , prevaricated .

    四十年来,西方世界一直对这个家伙采取避让的态度。

  9. She would prevaricate , but it would be in the line of her feelings at least .

    所以即使掩饰搪塞,她也得找个和她心情一致的借口。

  10. I 'm never one to make a decision when I can procrastinate , fudge and prevaricate .

    一曲抛若能拖延、回避、搪塞,我从不作决定。

  11. Instead of admit his guilt , he prevaricate .

    他不但不承认,反而支吾其词。

  12. Its leaders cannot prevaricate over diplomacy for ever ; ditching their anti-Semitic charter would help too .

    它的领导人在外交上不能总是支支吾吾;抛弃他们反犹太的主张将会有所帮助。

  13. He loudly opposes torture while his Republican colleagues prevaricate .

    当他的同事们闪烁其词时,他大声反对刑讯。

  14. ' Don 't prevaricate , 'said Mr. Lorry .

    不要支吾其辞了,罗瑞先生说。

  15. They should be declared invalid and certainly not be abused as a bureaucratic hurdle to prevaricate in a dangerous crisis .

    应宣布它们无效,同时,当然也不应作为在一场危险的危机中推诿搪塞的官僚障碍被滥用。

  16. If you tell me any lies , or attempt to prevaricate in any way , or even fall below your usual level of intelligence , you will cry out with pain , instantly .

    如果你向我说谎,或者不论想怎么样搪塞,或者甚至说的不符合你平时的智力水平,你都会马上痛得叫出来。

  17. And while western companies prevaricate , countries such as India and Brazil are producing some highly impressive companies that often beat those Western multinationals at their own game and with innovations aplenty .

    尽管西方企业不肯承认,但印度和巴西等国正在涌现出一些表现极其出色的企业,常常能通过大量创新,赶超西方跨国企业。

  18. Confirming the US political adage that it is not the act that counts but the cover-up , the administration has squirmed and prevaricated about its job offers .

    一提到提供的职位,奥巴马政府就局促不安,闪烁其辞,由此印证了美国政界的一句格言:重要的不是行动,而是掩盖真相。

  19. The words sound just fell , those big guy yet pedal Anne the sea and small valuable son discard in the side and prevaricate on the owner , alas hey reserve vocation .

    话音刚落,那些大汉已被安海和小贵子扔到了边上,躺在地主,唉哟叫个不停。

  20. But he has been driven to seek new alternatives as Europe prevaricates over strengthening its bail-out fund and the European Central Bank warns that its month-old bond-buying programme cannot go on indefinitely .

    但此刻他不得不寻找其它救星,目前欧洲在加强其纾困基金问题上举棋不定,而欧洲央行(ECB)警告称,其实行了一个月的债券购买计划不可能无限期延续下去。

  21. We now know that Rupert just might be a doddering old fool , that his son can prevaricate with the best of them , and that Wendi Deng has clearly been put on edge by the whole experience .

    现在我们知道,鲁伯特或许只是一个糊涂的糟老头子,他儿子则是尽其所能支吾其词,而且显然整个事件已经让他的妻子邓文迪变得神经紧张。