prevaricate
英 [prɪˈværɪkeɪt]
美 [prɪˈværɪkeɪt]
v. 支吾搪塞; 闪烁其词; 吞吞吐吐
过去式：prevaricated 现在分词：prevaricating 过去分词：prevaricated 第三人称单数：prevaricates 复数：prevaricates
BNC.22985 / COCA.39840
牛津词典
verb
- 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。
- Stop prevaricating and come to the point.
柯林斯词典
- VERB 支吾；搪塞；推诿；闪烁其词
If youprevaricate, 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。
- British ministers continued to prevaricate.
英英释义
verb
- be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
双语例句
- Even as Chinese leaders prevaricate and take half-measures to address the underlying causes of inflation, these problems are not being dealt with.
即使中国领导人敷衍塞责，采用折中的办法对待通胀的根本原因，这些问题还是没有得到处理。 - British ministers continued to prevaricate.
英国的大臣们仍然闪烁其词。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Instead of admit his guilt, he prevaricate.
他不但不承认，反而支吾其词。