stonewall
stonewall 英 [ˌstəʊnˈwɔ:l] 美 [ˈstoʊnˈwɔl]
vt. 妨碍；阻碍；小心翼翼地打球 vi. 妨碍；阻碍；小心翼翼地打球
进行时:stonewalling 过去式:stonewalled 过去分词:stonewalled 第三人称单数:stonewalls 名词复数:stonewalls
- To stonewall is to deliberately hold something up or delay it, especially by refusing to cooperate or answer questions. A big company might stonewall when its workers try to negotiate for higher pay — and your parents mightstonewall when you try to negotiate for a higher allowance.
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- vt. 妨碍；阻碍；小心翼翼地打球
- vi. 妨碍；阻碍；小心翼翼地打球
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1. Just because your bias or your tendency or your experience tells you to sulk and stonewall, you don't have to react that way.
如果只因为您的偏见或者是您的意向或经验就让您生气或采取抵制行为，那么最好不要那样做。
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2. Gay men and lesbians, for their part, ought to remember, on the way home from Niagara Falls, that it was drag queens and transsexuals at stonewall who began this fight.
对于男女同性恋者，他们应该铭记，就在他们从尼亚加拉大瀑布回家的途中，是那些男扮女装的人和易性人在Stonewall开始了这场斗争。
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3. She also admires the men who are actually like women: transsexuals and flamboyant drag queens, the heroes of the 1969 stonewall rebellion, which started the gay liberation movement.
她也尊重那些实际上像女人的男人：变性人和穿着浮夸的装扮女王，1969石墙暴动(开启了男同性恋自由运动)的英雄们。
- stonewall (n.) also stone wall, Old English stanwalle; see stone (n.) + wall (n.). As nickname of Confederate General Thomas J. Jackson (1824-1863), bestowed 1861 on the occasion of the First Battle of Bull Run, supposedly by Gen. Bernard Bee, urging his brigade to rally around Jackson, who was "standing like a stone wall." Bee was killed in the battle; the account of the nickname appeared in Southern newspapers within four days of the battle.
- stonewall (v.) "to obstruct," 1889 in sports; 1914 in politics, from metaphoric use of stone wall (n.) for "act of obstruction" (1876). Related: Stonewalled; stonewalling (defined in Century Dictionary as "parliamentary obstruction by talking against time, raising technical objections, etc.," and identified as originally Australian).
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