dérober

On ne saurait leur demander de se sacrifier pour l'intérêt de la planète tandis que les puissants réunis à Copenhague ont montré qu'ils se dérobaient.
We cannot ask them to sacrifice themselves in the interests of the planet while the powers that be gathered in Copenhagen have shown that they sidestepped the issue.
Il exposait donc ces problèmes à ses amis manichéens et il leur demandait des explications, mais ceux-ci se dérobaient à ses questions en disant que leur évêque Faustus lui aurait répondu et aurait résolu toutes ces difficultés.
So he presented these difficulties to his Manichaean friends and asked an explanation, but they dodged saying that their bishop Faustus would answer all his difficulties.
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