1.打守球
1.to refuse to give information
1.a gay bar in New York City where there were protests in 1969 after police entered to search for illegal activity. These events are important because they are considered as the beginning of gay people’s fight for political rights in the U.S.
1."We're not being unreasonable, " Inhofe said. "The only leverage we have is the quorum leverage, and if we get stonewalled, we'll use it. "
“我们不是不讲道理的,”英霍夫说,“法定人数是我们掌握的唯一杠杆,如果我们受到阻碍,我们将使用它。”
2.When his relatives tried to find out where he might have disappeared to, the U. S. embassies in the region, and the CIA, stonewalled them.
当他的亲戚试图寻找他的时候,在该地区的美国大使馆和美国中央情报局阻止了他们。
3.The company stonewalled our attempts to find the truth. The company stubbornly kept silent and obstructed our attempts to find the truth.
公司很固执地保持着沉默,由此阻碍了我们了解事实真相的企图。
4.At every turn, Fannie declared publicly its desire for a strong new regulator. And at every turn, it stonewalled behind the scenes.
房利美每每宣称,它希望有一个强有力的新监管机构,可它每每又在暗地里加以抵制。
5.People like this start off lonely, maybe will even stay lonely for a long time, rejected by many, even stonewalled.
这样的人一开始是寂寞的,很可能长时间是寂寞的,被大多数人所排斥的,甚至是围攻的。
6.Last time, Chinese officials are said largely to have stonewalled overseas regulators.
上一次,中国官员据悉基本上把外国监管者拒之门外。
7.Queries about civilian casualties during the bombing raid were stonewalled by government officials .
关于在空袭中平民死伤人数的询问受到了政府官员的阻扰。
8.I sold everything I owned to come looking for Thassarian, only to be stonewalled by the local bureaucracy.
我卖掉了全部家当去寻找Thassarian,当地的官僚却严密的封锁了消息。
9.Unfortunately, Yahoo executives stonewalled the inevitable questions, saying they had agreed not to 'discuss the past. '
不幸的是,雅虎高管对于人们必然要问的问题闪烁其辞,说他们已经同意“不谈过去”。
10.i tried to find out who should be held responsible for the accident , but he stonewalled me.
我想找出这意外事故应该由谁负责,但他有意阻挠)。