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
- 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。 - British ministers continued to prevaricate.
英国的大臣们仍然闪烁其词。 - 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。 - Instead of admit his guilt, he prevaricate.
他不但不承认，反而支吾其词。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。