stonewall

英 ['st??nw??l; st??n'w??l] 美['ston'w?l]

GRE

第三人稱單數(shù):?stonewalls;過(guò)去式:?stonewalled;過(guò)去分詞:?stonewalled;現(xiàn)在分詞:?stonewalling;

stonewall 石墻，防守，阻止，擋擊

stone,石頭，wall,墻。

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.
On the face of it this account has no character of authenticity, and the words ascribed to Bee smack less of the battlefield than of the editorial sanctum. ... It seems inherently probable that something was said by somebody, during or immediately after the battle, that likened Jackson or his men or both to a stone wall. [R.M. Johnston, "Bull Run: Its Strategy and Tactics," Boston, 1913]
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).

1. The gay and lesbian rights group, Stonewall, sees outing as completely unhelpful.: 男女同性戀權(quán)益組織“石墻”認(rèn)為公開(kāi)揭露同性戀者身份毫無(wú)益處。

2. He did his best this week to stonewall questions and to block even the most modest proposals.: 他這周竭力避免作出明確答復(fù)，甚至連一些最溫和的建議都企圖阻攔。

3. I want you to stonewall it, let them plead the Fifth Amendment ( Richard M. Nixon ): 我要你抵制它, 讓他們請(qǐng)求第五次修改 ( 理查德M.尼克松 )

4. The defense claims that the prosecution and the labs they employ stonewall'discovery requests.: 辯方主張控方和他們雇用的實(shí)驗(yàn)室都妨礙了辯方的發(fā)現(xiàn)請(qǐng)求.