| 例句 |
tergiversateverb to avoid giving a definite answer or positionshamelessly tergiversating, the witness replied, "Well, it depends upon what your definition of ‘truth’ is" equivocate, fudge, hedge, pussyfoot, waffle, weasel flip-flop, yo-yododge, duck, elude, eschew, evade, shake, shirk, shun, sidestep, skirtbypass, circumventcavil, quibblestraddle beat around the bush(or beat about the bush), hem and haw, straddle the fence in 1590 |