foot-dragging

1. He accused the company of "shameful foot-dragging."
他指责该公司犯有“可耻的故意拖延行为”。

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2. He agreed that police foot-dragging over the affair looked troubling.
他同意警方对此事的拖沓看上去有失透明。

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3. Its negotiating style is marked by bluster, foot-dragging, blackmail and brinkmanship.
它的谈判风格就是以威吓,拖延,敲诈和边缘政策为特点的。

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4. But there are also financial considerations behind the Senate's foot-dragging on ratification.
但参议院迟迟不批条约还有其财政方面的考虑。

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5. Barack Obama recently signed a ground-breaking free-trade agreement (FTA) with South Korea, after years of Washington foot-dragging.
历经华盛顿数年的迟疑,奥巴马近期与韩国签署一份具有里程碑意义的自由贸易协定。

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6. Many of the most damaging crises, by contrast, have resulted from foot-dragging at the top—as appears to be the case with Toyota today.
而与此相对照的是,许多最具破坏性的危机是由于公司高层的拖后腿——现在的丰田公司看起来就是这样的情形。

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7. She said it addressed the historic US "foot-dragging" over an issue that many Americans believed only affected remote parts of the planet.
她说,这份报告阐述的是历史上有名的美国式“拖延”,而不是一个问题,即美国人相信受影响的仅仅是行星遥远的一部分。

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8. When one weighs the opposing forces, the elements of space and time, and the sea-land transfer problem, one sees that Churchill’s foot-dragging made sense。
如果我们衡量一下双方的兵力,时间与空间的要素,以及海陆转运问题等时,我们就会明白,邱吉尔迟迟未能采取行动是合情合理的。

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9. In theory, they must prove that the EPA's foot-dragging has caused them some specific harm that regulation might remedy-a tall order in a field as fraught with uncertainty as climatology.
理论上说,原告必须要证明,正是由于环保局的迟疑不决,才导致了他们一些具体的损失,这些损失通过采取监控可能挽回——在同气候学一样充满了不确定性的这个领域里,这是一个很苛刻的要求。

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10. Both are dragging their right foot as they walk.
他们都是拖拉着右脚走路。

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11. They moved in procession down the surface of the frozen river, on foot, and dragging their canoes after them on sledges.
在冰冻的河面上他们拖着载有小船的雪橇列队向南步行。

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12. My skill did not improve much but I swattered a lot for I had to walk with "four legs" - dragging ski on foot and pushing forward with posts in hands.
我的滑雪技术并没有多少提高,汗倒是出了很多。因为得用“四条腿”滑雪确实很累。两条腿得拖着滑雪板,两臂得用滑雪杆推动身体前进。

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13. My skill did not improve much but I swattered a lot for I had to walk with "four legs" - dragging ski on foot and pushing forward with posts in hands.
我的滑雪技术并没有多少提高,汗倒是出了很多。因为得用“四条腿”滑雪确实很累。两条腿得拖着滑雪板,两臂得用滑雪杆推动身体前进。

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