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
- Instead of admit his guilt, he prevaricate.
他不但不承认，反而支吾其词。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。