0 to refuse to give something or to keep back something -- 拒绝给与;扣留
to withhold information/support 拒绝提供消息/给予支持
During the trial, the prosecution was accused of withholding crucial evidence from the defence. 审判期间,原告方被指控对被告方隐瞒了十分重要的证据。
Police are withholding the dead woman's name until her relatives have been informed. 在通知女性死者的亲属之前,警方拒绝透露她的名字。
She withheld her rent until the landlord agreed to have the repairs done. 她拒付房租,直到房东答应进行维修。
The government is planning to withhold benefit payments from single mothers who refuse to name the father of their child. 对于那些拒绝说出自己孩子的父亲是谁的单身母亲,政府正在计划取消她们的救济金。
In the stop-signal task, this tone indicated that the planned response to the grating should be withheld.
To modern sensibilities these key dramatic moments that withhold opera's defining force, the virtuosic voice, may seem odd.
Judgment should be withheld, not because patients are never accountable, but because clinicians and other healthcare providers are supposed to be partners, not critics.
A policy of withholding societal funds cannot be justified unless several conditions are met.
This enabled him to manipulate the chiefly system by promoting those loyal to him and withholding promotion from those he opposed.
For example, it is reasonable to continue and monitor immunosuppressive therapy while withholding invasive diagnostic and therapeutic interventions, antibiotics, pressor, intubation, and cardiac resuscitation.
Some people may suggest that the key difference lies in the fact that withholding tax-exempt status merely involves denying a benefit, not imposing a cost.
Can caregivers withdraw or withhold care from infants when death is inevitable or a severe disability is likely?