whitewash
发音
英 [ˈwaɪtwɒʃ]
美 [ˈwaɪtwɑʃ]
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- n.
- （粉刷用的）石灰水，白色涂料
- 粉饰
- 掩盖
- <非正>（得零分）大败
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- vt.
- 美化，粉刷
- 粉饰，掩饰
- 彻底击败
单词词源
whitewash 石灰水，掩饰
比喻用法。
双语例句
- 1. Please do not whitewash your inherent faults with your acquired virtues .
- 先天的毛病就别用习得的美德去粉饰了。
- 2. China and other countries have long excoriated japan for the way its textbooks whitewash the country 's history , in particular glossing over japanese war crimes .
- 中国和其他一些国家一直以来都在谴责日本粉饰教科书里的历史，尤其是掩饰日本的战争罪行。
- 3. Tea out of an urn is always tasteless , while army tea , made in a cauldron , tastes of grease and whitewash .
- 用瓮泡出来的茶总是淡而无味，而部队里喝的茶是用锅煮出来的，尝起来有一股油脂和石灰水的味道。
- 4. The classical olympics were always run by a board of nine from the local town ( elis ) , so there were no international spats , no corruption scandals , no hijacking of the games to whitewash dictators .
- 古典奥运会总是由来自当地城邦（elis）的九人委员会管理，因此没有国际争执，没有腐败丑闻，没有粉饰独裁者的劫持绑架。
- 5. Researchers will need the skills exhibited by tom sawyer when he persuaded his friends it would be a joyous privilege to whitewash a fence .
- 研究员们需要tomsawyer展示出的技巧，那种可用来说服朋友们粉刷一堵围墙是个令人快乐的特权的技巧。