whitewash的中文翻譯是什麼意思

N-UNCOUNT(粉刷用的)石灰水，白塗料

Whitewash is a mixture of lime or chalk and water that is used for painting walls white.

VERB用石灰水粉刷

If a wall or building has been whitewashed, it has been painted white with whitewash.

• The walls had been whitewashed.

  牆已經用石灰水刷過了。

• ...a town of picturesque whitewashed cottages.

  一座座小屋粉刷得潔白而漂亮的城鎮

VERB粉飾;掩飾

If you say that people whitewash something, you are accusing them of hiding the unpleasant facts or truth about it in order to make it acceptable.

• The administration is whitewashing the regime's actions...

  政府在粉飾該政權的行為。

• 'The whole incident was whitewashed,' he claimed yesterday.

  “整個事件都已經被粉飾過了，”他昨日聲稱。

N-UNCOUNT粉飾;掩飾

Whitewash is an attempt to hide the unpleasant facts or truth about someone or something.

• He pledged that there would be no whitewash and that the police would carry out a full investigation...

  他保證將不會有任何掩飾，並且警方將進行全面調查。

• The report's findings were condemned as total whitewash.

  這份報告最後的結論被譴責為徹頭徹尾的粉飾。

VERB輕易戰勝；使（對手）得零分

In sports, if a player or team whitewashes an opponent, they win very easily, and their opponent does not get any points at all.

• Not since 1988 had she whitewashed an opponent in her opening match...

  自1988年以來她還從未在開場賽中讓對手吃過鴨蛋。

• Their leading players were being whitewashed 4-0.

  他們的主力陣容以0比4慘敗。