This is The English We Speak from BBC Learning English and we're finding out about the phrase 'to give someone the runaround', which means 'to deliberately behave in an unhelpful way'.

这里是BBC地道英语，我们正在" to give someone the runaround" 意思，它是指" 故意不帮忙" 。

I got my file from one of these firms; others gave the runaround.

我从其中一家公司拿到了我文件；其他人则在搪塞。

When I called the bank to ask for a loan, they just gave me the runaround.

我去银行贷款，他们却只是敷衍搪塞我。

Well, there's one place where you won't be given the runaround.

好吧，不过有一个地方你绝不会被敷衍。

And don't be given the runaround this time, Rob!

罗伯，这次就不要再被搪塞敷衍了！

If you are given the runaround, it can be very frustrating.

如果别人让你" runaround" ，那真让人很失望。

She went to the hospital to get the results of her test, but she just got the runaround. Now she's going to make a formal complaint.

她去医院取检查结果，却被他们搪塞。现在她要去正式投诉了。

I'm sure it is. I know lots of situations where I've been given the runaround.

我知道。我知道很多被搪塞敷衍情况。

Well, even after he got through, he says, he got the runaround from the receptionist.

即便电话接通后，他说，前台接待员还是让他来回折腾了一番。

By the next summer, U.S. regulators are tired of getting the runaround.

到了第二年夏天，美国监管大众搪塞感到厌倦。

And it's truly just, it's a runaround due process that they should be afforded.

这确实只是他们应享有正当程序推诿扯皮。

It’s also an old debate – the danger was obvious to science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, who introduced a fictional “Three Laws of Robotics” in his 1942 short story " Runaround" .

这也是一项老争——科幻作家艾萨克·阿西莫夫在其1942年短篇小说《跑来跑去》中就明确指出了这种危险，并提出了虚“器人三大定律”。

And so I think, yeah, getting on the phone with those people and them just giving me the absolute runaround frustrated me so bad.

所以我觉得，跟那些人打电话，他们就是不停地推脱，真是让我气坏了。

I wanted to just do a quick runaround to the various sports leagues about legal names in the sports.

我想快速地了解一下各个体育联盟在体育领域中法律名称问题。

The Home Office gave me the runaround.

内政部搪塞了我。

00 A.M. tomorrow, but I think I'm getting the runaround.

明早十点 但我觉得他们在推诿。

Yes, he was giving me the runaround regarding the refund policy.

是, 他在退款政策方面给了我一个转折点。

LENE TUAUA: Why—I mean, why give us the runaround?

LENE TUAUA： 为什么——我意思是，为什么要给我们回避？

Even after I got through, I got the runaround from the receptionist.

即使我打通了电话，还是被前台接待员绕来绕去。

So from then until now, I have been getting nothing but the runaround from this company.

从那时起到现在，我在这家公司得到只有推诿扯皮。