whitewash
常考释义
1.[u]（粉刷用的）石灰水，白涂料a mixture of chalk or lime and water, used for painting houses and walls white
2.[u][sing]粉饰；掩盖an attempt to hide unpleasant facts about sb/sth
The opposition claimed the report was a whitewash.反对派声称这份报告文过饰非。
3.[c][ususing](informal)（在体育比赛中接连击败对手的）全胜，完胜(in sport) a victory in every game in a series
a 7–0 whitewash7:0 全胜
a whitewash victory大获全胜
1.~ sth粉刷（墙壁等）；刷石灰水to cover sth such as a wall with whitewash
2.~ sb/sth掩饰；粉饰to try to hide unpleasant facts about sb/sth; to try to make sth seem better than it is
His wife had wanted to whitewash his reputation after he died.他妻子在他死后本来想粉饰他的名声。
3.~ sb/sth（在系列比赛中）完全击败，完胜to defeat an opponent in every game in a series
He thought for a moment and decided it was unnecessary to whitewash the other caves, and then he laid down his brush magnanimously .
他算来算去，觉得暂时没有必要把更多的洞窟刷白，就刷这几个吧，他达观地放下了刷把。
Sighing, he began to whitewash the fence but did not enjoy it.
他叹着气，开始粉刷那片篱笆，但他一点都不喜欢干。
But why would Mr. Buffett now go out of his way to whitewash Mr. Sokol's departure?
但是，巴菲特现在为什么愿意不遗余力地为索科尔的离去文过饰非呢？
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。
When a police supervisor was unsatisfied with his detective's first attempt at a whitewash, he rewrote it to make it smoother.
当一位警督对一位侦探的洗白试图感到不满意时，他干脆重写证词，以使之更不可疑。
The main aim is to identify the reflection, so the reflection corrective fault, not to be intoxicated with more can't whitewash.
反思的主要目的是找出过失及时纠正，所以反思决不可以陶醉于成绩，更不可以文过饰非。
Please do not whitewash your inherent faults with your acquired virtues. I would have the faults; they are like mine own.
请你不要以后天的德行来粉饰作的先天的缺陷。我宁愿有缺陷；这些缺陷和我自己的一样。
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。
Sighing, he began to whitewash the fence.
叹气，他开始用石灰水给栅栏刷白。
Please do not whitewash your inherent faults with your acquired virtues.
请不要用你后天的美德来粉饰你先天的缺陷。
On one occasion, Aunt Polly punished Tom to whitewash the wall, Tom wanted a way to get other children to help him to do.
有一次，波莉姨妈罚汤姆去粉刷墙，汤姆却想办法让别的小孩帮他做。
The traveler's brain was in a whirl. To whitewash his embarrassment, he said hello to them.
他的脑子一阵旋转，为了掩饰他的窘迫，他想她们问好。
Don't lie or try to whitewash facts, but don't feel you have to go into every topic completely, especially for a young child.
不要撒谎或者试图粉饰事实。但也不要在每个细节上都过于深入，尤其是在面对特别小的孩子的时候。
Like a fence, character cannot be strengthened by whitewash.
就像篱笆，性格不能用粉饰来增强。
a whitewash or other water-based paint tinted with a colored pigment.
带有各种色彩的涂料或水基漆。
It took me a whole Sunday to whitewash the wall.
我星期天花了一天来刷墙。
Tom appeared by a fence with a bucket of whitewash and a long brush.
汤姆提着一桶石灰水和拿着一把长刷子沿着栅栏出现了。
If he hadn't run out of whitewash , he would have bankrupted every boy in the village.
要不是他的灰浆用完了，恐怕全村每个孩子都要让他弄得破产了。
"That's the nearest we could get to the word 'whitewash' in Latin, " says Hamilton, a bony finger tracing its outline.
“这是我们能找到的和拉丁语‘粉饰’最接近的东西，”汉密尔顿说着，用骨瘦如柴的手指描画着它的轮廓。
Kelly described the failure of the report to recommend criminal prosecutions as a complete whitewash.
凯利还称这份提出刑事控诉的报道文过饰非。
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