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　

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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
  1. Stop prevaricating and come to the point.
     别吞吞吐吐的，有话快说吧。

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.
  1. British ministers continued to prevaricate.
     英国的大臣们仍然闪烁其词。

英英释义

verb

• be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
  Synonym:beat around the bushequivocatetergiversatepalter

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• British ministers continued to prevaricate.
  英国的大臣们仍然闪烁其词。
• 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。
• Instead of admit his guilt, he prevaricate.
  他不但不承认，反而支吾其词。
• 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。
• 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。
• 'Don't prevaricate,'said Mr. Lorry.
  不要支吾其辞了，罗瑞先生说。
• 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。