whitewashing
v. 粉飾,美化,掩飾( whitewash的現在分詞 ); 噴漿
Whitewash is a mixture of lime or chalk and water that is used for painting walls white.
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
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。
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。
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。
When whitewashing the wall, he painted with a roller in his hand.
刷牆的時候, 他手裡拿個輥子,揮舞著胳膊.
He got himself dirty from whitewashing the wall.
他刷房時沾了一鼻子白灰.
Some others whitewashing a house.
另外一些農民正在粉刷一所房子.
A man's character is like a fence -- it cannot be strengthened whitewashing.
人的名譽猶如一道籬笆 -- 粉刷並不能使之堅固.
Houses in Germany have been whitewashed, and there has been other whitewashing as well.
德國的房屋業已粉刷, 間雜著其他粉飾的舉動.